Julie Thhekudan, another social activist, said the government needed to take the increasing number of rape cases against both Indian and foreign women very seriously to save the image of the country.

"Such incidents are affecting the tourism and the business sectors," Thhekudan told IANS.

In 2013, a Swiss woman in Madhya Pradesh, an American tourist in Himachal Pradesh and a Dutch woman in Goa were raped while a British tourist jumped off a hotel in Uttar Pradesh while trying to escape sexual assault.