{
 "case_id": "bx-r6-punjab-vb-05-007",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "SAS Nagar",
 "trial_court_name": "Additional Sessions Judge, SAS Nagar",
 "court_level": "sessions",
 "conviction_date": "2018-02",
 "conviction_year": 2018,
 "incident_date": null,
 "case_title_or_number": "SAS Nagar Senior Assistant convicted of bribery, Additional Sessions Judge, SAS Nagar (2018)",
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "Senior Assistant",
   "unit": "Treasury, SAS Nagar district",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name": null,
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "Senior Assistant, Treasury, SAS Nagar district"
  }
 ],
 "victims": [],
 "sections": [],
 "sentence": "7 years imprisonment; fine: Rs. 6.4 lac / Rs. 5.4 lac (per-convict split not stated in note)",
 "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_26.3.18.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://web.archive.org/web/20210306/https://vigilancebureau.punjab.gov.in/uploads/articles/vb_26.3.18.pdf"
 ],
 "summary": "A Punjab Vigilance Bureau press note records that the Additional Sessions Judge, SAS Nagar convicted a Senior Assistant, Treasury, SAS Nagar district, in February 2018. The conviction was for bribery. The sentence recorded is: 7 years imprisonment; fine: Rs. 6.4 lac / Rs. 5.4 lac (per-convict split not stated in note). 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": "Senior Assistant",
 "department": "Treasury",
 "government": "state",
 "watch": "babuwatch",
 "case_number": "Not stated in the source"
}