Before the execution of Kasab, people from across the globe wrote to the President of India to inform his family and the public of the rejection of the mercy petition and about any scheduled date of execution. Kasab was executed in secret in the Yerwada Central Prison, Pune. The secretive manner in which the execution of Afzal Guru was carried out was decried by a large number of the public and eminent people. According to family members, they were not informed of the execution and he was executed without their knowledge inside the Tihar Central Prison. Another vexed decision taken by the government was not to hand over the body to the family members but to bury him in the jail premises as there was a fear that his funeral could be used to incite violence in the Kashmir valley, where he hailed from.