Bentinck decided to put an immediate end to "Sati". Ram Mohan Roy warned Bentinck against abruptly ending "Sati". However, after observing that the judges in the courts were unanimously in favor of it, Bentinck proceeded to lay the draft before his council. Charles Metcalfe, the Governor's most prominent counselor expressed apprehension that the banning of "Sati" might be “used by the disaffected and designing” as “an engine to produce insurrection.” However these concerns didn't deter him from upholding the Governor's decision “in the suppression of the horrible custom by which so many lives are cruelly sacrificed.”