{
 "case_id": "bx-r6-punjab-vb-05-001",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "SAS Nagar",
 "trial_court_name": "Additional Session Judge, SAS Nagar",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "conviction_date": "2019-04",
 "conviction_year": 2019,
 "incident_date": null,
 "case_title_or_number": "SAS Nagar Junior Assistant convicted of bribery, Additional Session Judge, SAS Nagar (2019)",
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Junior Assistant",
   "unit": "Improvement Trust Rupnagar, SAS Nagar district",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Junior Assistant, Improvement Trust Rupnagar, SAS Nagar district"
  }
 ],
 "victims": [],
 "sections": [],
 "sentence": "4 years imprisonment; fine: Rs. 10,000",
 "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_14.5.19_VB_caught.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://web.archive.org/web/20210303/https://vigilancebureau.punjab.gov.in/uploads/articles/VB_14.5.19_VB_caught.pdf"
 ],
 "summary": "A Punjab Vigilance Bureau press note records that the Additional Session Judge, SAS Nagar convicted a Junior Assistant, Improvement Trust Rupnagar, SAS Nagar district, in April 2019. The conviction was for bribery. The sentence recorded is: 4 years imprisonment; fine: Rs. 10,000. 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": "Junior Assistant",
 "department": "Improvement Trust Rupnagar",
 "government": "local",
 "watch": "babuwatch",
 "case_number": "Not stated in the source"
}
