The Anti-Corruption Bureau has arrested a 43-year-old accountant with the forest department in Maharashtra's Thane district for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 50,000 from a man to provide a no-objection certificate for purchase of a land, the ACB said on Tuesday.

The man had bought a piece of land in Shahapur taluka and to take over its possession, he made an application to the forest department for a no-objection certificate (NOC).