India, Aug. 2 -- A 33-year-old daily labourer working in Trinidad and Tobago was arrested on Thursday for allegedly sending threatening emails and demanding Rs.10 crore from former MLA and NCP leader Zeeshan Siddique. The sender claimed to be a member of Dawood Ibrahim's gang (D-company), said a police officer.

The police said that in April, Zeeshan Siddique had received three emails in which the sender claimed that it was the D-company that had killed his father in 2024 and not the gang of Lawrence Bishnoi. "It was sad that after the Baba Siddique encounter, a fake news story about Lawrence Bishnoi being behind it was planted. It was done by someone else but that is in the past. Now I want Rs.10 crore from your family for protection and...