thiruvananthapuram the vigilance and anticorruption bureau officials here on wednesday arrested a staff of government information and public relations department iprd while accepting a bribe of rs 25000 g vinod kumar who works as the audiovideo officer under iprd was caught red handed by the vacb officials while accepting a bribe sitting in a car parked beside the road near medical college according to vacb officials vinod kumar was in charge of the online radio programmes of the state government he was arrested on the basis of a complaint filed by ratheesh the owner of mamega a city based production house that produces audio visual contents for the prd as per the complaint the department owed mamega rs 21 lakh in connection with various projects they produced for the government but vinod kumar demanded 15 of this amount which is rs 375 lakhs to clear the bills ratheesh then approached the vacb with a complaint they summoned vinod kumar to medical college on wednesday around 3 pm promising him to pay rs 25000 as first instalment and he was taken into custody when he turned up and accepted the money