{
 "case_id": "bx-r6-punjab-vb-04-001",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Amritsar",
 "trial_court_name": "Additional Sessions Judge, Amritsar",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "conviction_date": "2019-01",
 "conviction_year": 2019,
 "incident_date": null,
 "case_title_or_number": "Amritsar Personnel Assistant convicted of bribery, Additional Sessions Judge, Amritsar (2019)",
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Personnel Assistant",
   "unit": "Office of former Punjab Minister [name withheld] , Amritsar district",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Personnel Assistant, Office of former Punjab Minister [name withheld] , Amritsar district"
  }
 ],
 "victims": [],
 "sections": [
  "not stated"
 ],
 "sentence": "range across the six accused as printed: 4 to 6 years imprisonment (per-person attribution not stated); fine: range across the six accused as printed: Rs. 30,000 to Rs. 2,30,000 (per-person attribution not stated)",
 "appeal_status": "none_known",
 "appeal_url": null,
 "source_kind": "press_release",
 "source_agency": "punjab-vb",
 "primary_source_url": "http://vigilancebureau.punjab.gov.in/uploads/articles/VB_14.02.19.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://web.archive.org/web/20210301/http://vigilancebureau.punjab.gov.in/uploads/articles/VB_14.02.19.pdf"
 ],
 "summary": "A Punjab Vigilance Bureau press note records that the Additional Sessions Judge, Amritsar convicted a Personnel Assistant, Office of former [name withheld], Amritsar district, in January 2019. The conviction was for bribery, under not stated. The sentence recorded is: range across the six accused as printed: 4 to 6 years imprisonment (per-person attribution not stated); fine: range across the six accused as printed: Rs. 30,000 to Rs. 2,30,000 (per-person attribution not stated). 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": "Personnel Assistant",
 "department": "Office of former Punjab Minister [name withheld]",
 "government": "state",
 "watch": "babuwatch",
 "case_number": "Not stated in the source"
}