In the wake of the secretive execution of India’s most high-profile convict Ajmal Qasab, Minister of State for Home Satej Patil revealed that the state, and in fact the entire nation, had been put on high alert to deal with any kind of backlash.

Just hours after the execution, however, Yerawada Jail was seen manned by only a handful of cops, who, more surprisingly, bore no firearms but were seen wielding only their rudimentary lathis.