An agriculture officer has been arrested for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 7,000 in Maharashtra's Palghar district, an official from the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said on Wednesday.

Based on a complaint, the ACB laid a trap on Tuesday and caught Santosh Pawar, the taluka agricultural officer at Dahanu, while accepting the bribe amount, deputy superintendent of police, Navnath Jagtap said.