Kolkata, Oct. 19 -- The death of 19 people at the Chor Bagan stampede pointed to a lack of planning and bad space management, several former officers of the Kolkata Police said on Sunday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a former police commissioner said all information surfacing after the tragedy pointed at lacunae in crowd management. "The Kolkata Police traditionally divided community pujas into three categories: big, medium and small. Planning for crowd and vehicular traffic management was made well in advance. The Chor Bagan puja may have drawn huge crowds this year but it used to fall in the small category a decade ago," the officer said. "Reports surfacing from the spot indicate that an 11 or 11.5 feet wide exit point was highly inadequate to handle a crowd caught in a stampede. Moreover, I saw videos showing stalls set up outside the exit point. These made the road even narrower. An exit point must be twice as wide as an entry point because it is meant for mass evacuation during an emergency," he added. A retired IPS officer said, "Numerous social media videos shot before and after the incident show people complaining that there were no policemen in or outside the pandal. This was unthinkable during our tenure. People also alleged that a parallel guarded path for VIPs narrowed the general entry path down to 7.5 or 8 feet. IPS officers must be on the streets to inspect these things," he said. On Sunday, chief minster Suvendu Adhikari formed an expert team for site inspection and an inquiry into the incident. Later in the evening, the police department imposed restrictions at several roads in north Kolkata....