{
 "case_id": "bx-r6-punjab-vb-03-002",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Rupnagar",
 "trial_court_name": "Additional Session Judge, Rupnagar",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "conviction_date": "2019-06",
 "conviction_year": 2019,
 "incident_date": null,
 "case_title_or_number": "Rupnagar Forest Officer convicted of bribery, Additional Session Judge, Rupnagar (2019)",
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Forest Officer",
   "unit": "Rupnagar district",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Forest Officer, Rupnagar district"
  }
 ],
 "victims": [],
 "sections": [],
 "sentence": "4 years imprisonment; fine: Rs. 4,000",
 "appeal_status": "none_known",
 "appeal_url": null,
 "source_kind": "press_release",
 "source_agency": "punjab-vb",
 "primary_source_url": "https://vigilancebureau.punjab.gov.in/uploads/articles/VB_8-7-2019_total_work.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://web.archive.org/web/20190728/https://vigilancebureau.punjab.gov.in/uploads/articles/VB_8-7-2019_total_work.pdf"
 ],
 "summary": "A Punjab Vigilance Bureau press note records that the Additional Session Judge, Rupnagar convicted a Forest Officer, Rupnagar district, in June 2019. The conviction was for bribery. The sentence recorded is: 4 years imprisonment; fine: Rs. 4,000. The date given is the date of the agency's release; the judgment date is not stated separately. This is the agency's account of the court's decision; the official's name is withheld, and any later appeal is not reflected unless noted. Verification level V1: the name and conviction wording are matched in the source entry, but the date or case number shown is as extracted from the entry and was not matched in the cited passage.",
 "court_quote": null,
 "verification_status": "V1",
 "service": "civil",
 "post": "Forest Officer",
 "department": "Forest",
 "government": "state",
 "watch": "babuwatch",
 "case_number": "Not stated in the source"
}