{
 "case_id": "t2w3-15-005",
 "alias_case_ids": [],
 "verification_status": "V2",
 "gate_status": "V2",
 "verify_passes": {
  "t2w3-15-005": {
   "mverify": "accept",
   "mverify2": "accept"
  }
 },
 "verified_by": "t2mverify2-chunk-077 (SECOND independent pass — do not read any other verifier's output)",
 "verified_at": "2026-09-18T16:55:00Z",
 "verdict_note": "Official Punjab VB June-2019 round-up confirms Additional Sessions Judge, Patiala convicted ASI; corroborated by press reproduction.",
 "state": "Punjab",
 "district": "Patiala",
 "court": "Punjab and Haryana High Court",
 "court_level": "special_acb",
 "trial_court_name": "Additional Sessions Judge, Patiala",
 "case_title": "[name withheld] of Punjab v. [name withheld]",
 "case_number": "Bribery case decided June 2019 (Additional Sessions Judge, Patiala; FIR/case number not stated in VB release)",
 "conviction_date": "2019-06",
 "conviction_year": 2019,
 "date_precision": "month",
 "incident_date": null,
 "incident_year": null,
 "category": "corruption",
 "subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "raw_subcategory": "bribery_pc_act",
 "outcome_type": "trial_court_conviction",
 "officers": [
  {
   "rank": "ASI",
   "unit": "posted at Patiala",
   "publish_grade": "unnamed",
   "name_public": null,
   "display": "ASI, posted at Patiala",
   "key2_union": null,
   "name": null
  }
 ],
 "victims": [],
 "sections": [
  "PC Act 1988 (bribery; exact sections not stated in VB release)"
 ],
 "sentence": "3 years imprisonment (rigorous/simple not stated in release)",
 "sentence_type": "mixed",
 "sentence_max_years": 3,
 "appeal_status": "none_known",
 "appeal_url": null,
 "source_kind": "press_release",
 "source_agency": "Punjab Vigilance Bureau",
 "primary_source_url": "https://vigilancebureau.punjab.gov.in/uploads/articles/VB_8-7-2019_total_work.pdf",
 "secondary_sources": [
  "https://socialobserver.in/latest-news/vigilance-nabs-13-officials-2-private-persons-in-12-bribery-cases/",
  "https://web.archive.org/web/2021/https://vigilancebureau.punjab.gov.in/uploads/articles/VB_8-7-2019_total_work.pdf"
 ],
 "summary": "Per the Punjab Vigilance Bureau's official June-2019 monthly round-up (released 8 July 2019), ASI, posted at Patiala, was convicted and sentenced to 3 years imprisonment with Rs 20,000 fine by the Additional Sessions Judge, Patiala, in a bribery case contested by the Bureau and decided in June 2019. The release does not [name withheld] the FIR number, trap date, or PC Act sections. The same VB release was carried verbatim by Social Observer, corroborating the release text; no appeal record found (appeal_status none_known).",
 "court_quote": "[name withheld] ASI posted at Patiala has also been convicted and sentenced with 3 years imprisonment and fine of Rs. 20,000/- by the Additional Session Judge, Patiala.",
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded",
 "source_job": "t2w3-15",
 "r8_check": {
  "date": "2026-09-19",
  "member_verdicts": {
   "t2w3-15-005": "holds"
  },
  "applied": [],
  "noted": []
 },
 "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported",
 "tier_badge": "Externally reported",
 "subcategory_display": "bribery pc act",
 "last_checked": "2026-09-19",
 "followup_status": "checked",
 "followup_history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-19",
   "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass",
   "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published row against the official source (reverify/t2-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)",
   "result": "t2w3-15-005=holds",
   "corrections_applied": []
  }
 ],
 "case_title_or_number": "VB June-2019 monthly round-up: 'Vigilance nabs 13 officials, 2 private persons in 12 bribery cases during June; Seven officials sentenced by special courts' (decided June 2019, released 8 July 2019)",
 "service": "police",
 "watch": "babuwatch"
}