A 47-year-old man was arrested in Palghar district of Maharashtra for allegedly offering Rs 3 lakh bribe to a forest officer to not take action against him in an illegal construction case, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said.

The accused, Dighambar Jethe, along with some other people allegedly carried out an unauthorised construction on forest land in Vikramgadh taluka, ACB's deputy superintendent of police Ajay Aphale said.