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'Crime boss' threatens Dhoni bomb.

12/31/2008 12:19:23 PM

Police have beefed up security around India cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni Mahendra Singh Dhoni or MS Dhoni pronunciation  (born July 7, 1981 in Ranchi, Jharkhand) is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian Twenty20 and ODI team  after he received extortion extortion, in law, unlawful demanding or receiving by an officer, in his official capacity, of any property or money not legally due to him. Examples include requesting and accepting fees in excess of those allowed to him by statute or arresting a person and, with  letters from a man claiming to be an associate of the country's most wanted Most Wanted may refer to:
  • Lists used by law enforcement agencies to alert the public, such as the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
  • America's Most Wanted, a U.S.
 gangster.

More than 45 commandos were sent to Dhoni's house in his hometown of Ranchi, the capital of the eastern state of Jharkhand and one of India's poorest states, on Wednesday.

The first letter, sent on Monday, threatened Dhoni's family with dire consequences if the player failed to pay 5 million rupees ($102,000), police said.

A second letter on Wednesday threatened to blow up the captain's family home if police were asked for help.

Suspect identified

Dhoni
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 arrived in Ranchi on Tuesday and met a local police official on a day later to discuss the threat, thought to have been sent by a small-time small·time or small-time  
adj. Informal
Insignificant or unimportant; minor: a smalltime actor.



small
 crook called Taslim.

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," Satya Narayan Pradhan, a Jharkhand police spokesman, said.

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India's Most Wanted is a famous crime busting fugitive hunter television show in India.
 man for allegedly masterminding the country's most deadly bombings in 1993, which killed at least 250 people in Mumbai.

The underworld boss has eluded authorities for the past 15 years and is believed to be hiding in Pakistan.

By the 1980s and 1990s, he was one of Mumbai's top gangland leaders, with a billion-dollar vice empire spanning gambling, drugs and

prostitution.

Police say they have started an investigation into the letters.

Dhoni had already received extra security cover after Maoist rebels made death threats against him last year, police said.

But he was unhappy with the arrangements and applied for government permission for his security to carry more sophisticated weapons.

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