[hunter-2]

You should know that Google street view picked up traction around the same time the Mumbai attacks happened.

And that attack was largely coordinated thanks to extensive recce of the city by David headley.

Security concerns were valid because the government had the infrastructure to check the legitimacy of every foreigner entering the country. But a Headley-like recce could be possibly done by anyone from anywhere without the government knowing it.

Yes, there are workarounds, but The government was not wrong in taking it's time in giving clearance to something like this