Overview

• Agra authorities recovered five bodies after a group immersing a Durga idol slipped into a deep pit in the Utangan/Yamuna, with searches ongoing for several missing youths.
• Rescue operations in Agra now include NDRF and SDRF teams, PAC divers and Army engineering units, as officials note the group entered a non-designated stretch of the river.
• In Cuttack, objections to high-decibel music during a late-night procession led to stone-pelting that injured Deputy Commissioner of Police Rishikesh Khilari; six people were arrested and CAPFs were deployed before processions resumed.
• Kolkata and several other cities tightened ghat security with additional police, drones, river traffic units, disaster teams, temporary immersion ponds and bans on DJs, while Ranchi reported peaceful immersions under heavy deployment.
• Kolkata Police issued road closures and diversions for the October 5 Immersion Carnival featuring 113 award-winning puja committees, with crowd control measures already in place.