Overview
- The 18-foot idol reached Girgaon Chowpatty around 8 a.m. Sunday and was immersed around 9–9:15 p.m. after repeated failed attempts.
- Organisers shifted the idol onto a newly built electrically operated raft at about 4:45 p.m., as volunteers and local fishermen worked for hours to stabilise it in rough water.
- Mumbai civic officials reported one death and five injuries in an electrocution during a separate procession, identifying the deceased as 36-year-old Binu Sukumaran Kumaran.
- Police recorded 100-plus theft complaints along the procession route, lodging multiple FIRs, arresting at least four suspects, and recovering some stolen phones and gold chains.
- State reports logged immersion-related drownings and missing-person cases across Maharashtra, with additional fatalities in Madhya Pradesh, as clean-up operations and investigations proceed.