India, Nov. 10 -- The sessions court on Friday granted bail to a 33-year-old man who had been arrested for threatening Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Zeeshan Siddique and trying to extort Indian cricketer Rinku Singh by claiming to be affiliated with fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim.

The accused, identified as Mohammad Dilshad Mohammad Naushad, is a resident of Bihar, who worked as a daily wage labourer in a Caribbean country, Trinidad and Tobago. Naushad was detained by the Anti-Extortion Cell (AEC) of the city crime branch on August 1, soon after he landed at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA). Earlier in May, a 'lookout' circular had been issued against him after investigators traced a series of thr...