India, Oct. 23 -- The six-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the October 17 Kolkata stampede that killed 19 people has zeroed in on the narrow exit point and the dimly lit pathway at the Chor Bagan Durga Puja pandal, even as the eighth accused arrested in the case was due to be produced before a court on Friday, a day after his arrest.

A surge in crowds amid heavy rain triggered the stampede at one of the most popular Durga Puja venues, in cramped north Kolkata, as crowds jostled through a narrow bylane on Saptami, the seventh day of the festival.

Retired Calcutta high court judge Anindita Roy Saraswati, heading the SIT, said the stampede did not happen inside the pandal but at the exit point. "We found the lights to be dim...