A man arrested for allegedly sending a threat email to former Maharashtra MLA Zeeshan Siddique has admitted that he also sought to extort Rs 5 crore from India cricketer Rinku Singh in the name of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim, a police official said on Thursday.

Mohammed Dilshad Naved (35), a resident of Bihar, was apprehended by Mumbai Crime Branch on August 1 this year after he returned from the Caribbean nation of Tinidad and Tobago, the official said.

The Mumbai Crime Branch's Anti Extortion Cell has filed a chargesheet in the Zeeshan Siddique threat mail case.

The statement of Naved, in which he spoke about seeking Rs 5 crore from Rinku Singh by sending messages on the mobile phone of the cricketer's publicity team, is part of the chargesheet.

"Three messages were sent by Nave

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