New Delhi:
India on Wednesday said it was disappointed that the US did not provide specific information about Lashkar-e-Toiba operative David Headley even though he travelled here freely after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack.
"We could say that we were disappointed that the name of David Headley was not provided, if not pre-26/11 at least post 26/11," Union Home Secretary G K Pillai told reporters here.
The Home Secretary was replying to a question on reports that one of Headley's wives had said that she had given inputs to the US authorities but that was not really acted upon.
Asked whether America has not been forthcoming in providing information about Headley, Pillai said, "I think partly true, but not fully. I think they have shared but I would appreciate if it had been much more than what they have been doing".
According to US media reports, 50-year-old Pakistani-American Headley's American wife had given the FBI in New York a tip-off about his LeT links in 2005 while his young Moroccan wife had told authorities in the US embassy in Islamabad, less than a year before the 2008 Mumbai attacks, that he was plotting a terror strike.
"When he (Headley) came subsequently in March 2009 to India at least at that time we could have nabbed him here," he said.
Headley, who had plotted the 26/11 Mumbai attacks that claimed 166 lives, is currently in US custody.