Mumbai's Central Prison Superintendent of Police Vasudev Burkule and his deputy have been arrested for allegedly accepting bribe of Rs 35,000 from a jail officer to clear him in the Maharashtra prison manual exam, the ACB said today.

Burkule and his deputy Pradeep Pathrikar were arrested from Central Prison Police Officials' Residential Colony in South Mumbai, after a trap was laid last night, Additional Police Commissioner (ACB), Vishwas Nangare Patil told PTI.