'No response from Aus on Haneef arrest'

MELBOURNE: Authorities in Australia have not provided any information about the Indian doctor arrested over a possible link to a terror plot in Britain, a senior Indian diplomat on Wednesday said.

"The consul had asked Australian Police to provide details about Haneef but till now has got no further information," Queensland-based Indian consul Savra-Daman Singh said.

"We are just aware that the suspect name is Dr Mohamed Haneef and that he is from India. Apart from this we have no other information," he said.

"We only know he is in police custody and is being interrogated," he said adding that the reason for this could be that matter was a delicate issue at this point.

"We do not know his address in India, we do not know his passport number, we do not know his date of birth, there are no details to go on," Singh said.

"That was the end of it. We tried to find these things out but we could not glean that information from those who perhaps know."

Indian national Mohammed Haneef, who was arrested at Brisbane international airport on Monday night, is being questioned by federal police about a possible connection to terror attacks in London and Glasgow.