Three officials of a local fund audit office in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district have been arrested for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 16,500 to manipulate a report, an official said on Saturday, reported news agency PTI.

Acting on a complaint, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday caught assistant director Sharad Raghunath Jadhav (53), assistant audit officer Siddharth Vijay Shetye (45), and Satej Shantaram Ghwali (38), a peon, accepting the bribe money, said Avinash Patil, deputy superintendent of police, ACB, Ratnagiri, reported PTI.