India, May 15 -- A fire department official was arrested on Thursday while accepting a bribe of Rs.15,000 from an accountant of a society on the Golf Course Road in Sector 53, officials said.

Officials said the arrest was made by the Haryana state vigilance and anti-corruption bureau (ACB). The accountant was bribing the official asking him not to prepare an adverse report against her.

The 38-year-old lead fireman was posted at the Sector 29 fire station, officials said.

A senior ACB official said that the accountant was posted in the maintenance department of the society where a fire had broken out in an apartment on April 13 this year.

"The lead fireman had threatened the accountant that he will submit a report to the department men...