Summary:
Security officials often dismiss the high number of rape cases saying that most of the cases are 'technical rape' cases. Technical RapeSecurity officials often dismiss high number of rape cases saying that most cases are of ‘technical rape’. This means that against 370 victims, who were compensated in 2017 and 2018, the actual number of cases were 2,213 for the year 2017 alone. While the government said that 81 and 289 rape victims registered in the year 2017 and 2018 respectively were compensated, the data it presented last year up of to March 2018 alone saw 2,213 registered cases of rape. The state government on Friday stated that every rape victim in Gujarat has been compensated as on December 31, 2018..