Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Ajmal-Kasab-hanged-and-buried-in-Punes-Yerwada-Jail/articleshow/17303820.cms?
TNN | Nov 21, 2012, 08.22 AM IST

NEW DELHI: In a secret operation, LeT terrorist and 26/11 attacks accused Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab was hanged in the high-security Yerwada Jail in Pune at 7:30am today after a four-year-long trial. Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan said he was buried inside the Yerwada Jail at 9.30am.

Union home secretary R K Singh said: “Family members of Kasab were informed about the hanging through a letter sent by courier.” Meanwhile, home minister said: “Indian mission in Islamabad informs Pakistan government about Kasab’s hanging through letter. Pakistan refuses to take the letter, which was then faxed.”

The lone surviving terrorist in the Mumbai attack of November 26, 2008 was shifted to the Yerwada Jail following the rejection of his mercy petition by the President earlier on November 5. The Maharashtra government November 21, today, as the date of execution.”The entire process was executed very secretly”, the Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said.

In January 2010, nine of Kasab’s associates, who had sneaked into Mumbai on the night of Nov 26, 2008, to unleash three days of terror, were quietly buried at an undisclosed location near Mumbai. Kasab’s end came just five days before the fourth anniversary of the brutal terror attacks that killed 166 lives and injured 300.

“The punishment to Kasab is a true tribute to the victims and martyrs of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks,” Maharashtra home minister R R Patil said.