Overview
- A crowd crush outside the Chorbagan Sarbojanin pandal on October 17 killed 19 people and injured dozens, triggering public grief and official action.
- West Bengal authorities have formed two Special Investigation Teams and a judicial probe led by retired judge Anindita Roy Saraswati and have set a three‑month deadline for the investigation.
- Police supervised the quiet removal and immersion of the Chorbagan idol on October 24 using professional porters while keeping the pandal sealed to protect forensic evidence.
- Organisers and residents omitted customary farewell rites such as Debi Boron and Sindoor Khela and held a silent candle march, and city officials tightened crowd controls and restricted photography inside pandals.
- Elsewhere in the region puja closures were largely peaceful, with Meghalaya reporting safe immersions and Bangladesh running large, heavily guarded celebrations despite earlier reports of vandalism and temple attacks.