Overview
- Authorities confirmed nine fatalities, including a child, and reported several injured with three initially listed as critical.
- The Sri Venkateswara Swamy Temple is privately run and not registered with the Endowments Department, and organisers did not seek police permissions or crowd-control support.
- Police have barricaded the Kasibugga temple, placed founder Hari Mukund Panda under house arrest, interrogated staff, and registered cases as a formal probe proceeds.
- State leaders began disbursing ex gratia of ₹15 lakh to families of the deceased and ₹3 lakh to the injured, with the PMO announcing ₹2 lakh for next of kin and ₹50,000 for the injured.
- Officials cited single entry and exit points, a narrow first-floor staircase, and areas still under construction as factors that exacerbated the deadly surge.