Overview
- A sudden push toward the stage during the festival’s closing-night concert created a stampede-like commotion, according to multiple reports.
- Officials and eyewitnesses said two to three attendees fainted, with patients treated on site and later at SCB Medical College and Hospital.
- Cuttack Police Commissioner S Dev Datta Singh said there was no major unrest and that the only confirmed injury was minor and the person is stable.
- Some outlets reported a mild lathi-charge to disperse sections of the crowd, a detail not confirmed in the police’s account.
- The incident occurred despite a large security presence of roughly 70 platoons, renewing scrutiny of crowd-control planning at Bali Jatra.