Telangana High Court Halts Beautification at Ameenpur Lake Over FTL Dispute

Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy issued the orders after finding that the FTL limits were embroiled in a dispute. The judge directed that status quo be maintained over the disputed properties. He suspended the operation of GO Rt. No. 678 issued by the metropolitan area and urban development department on July 13, 2026, insofar as it related to Ameenpur Lake (FID-199). The GO was issued according to administrative sanction to undertake beautification and restoration of four lakes including the Pedda Cheruvu, in which the FTL area was shown as 464.56 acres.

The ‘Memoirs of Pedda Cheruvu’ showed the FTL at 93.15 acres. Relying on the document, the High Court in a batch of petitions filed in the years 2018 and 2019 issued orders to the same extent. With the present GO specifying a larger extent, the court suspended its operation with regard to the Pedda Cheruvu.

Housing societies and individuals had approached the High Court challenging the FTL mentioned in the GO 678. During arguments, Additional Advocate-General Md. Imran Khan, appearing for the state, contended that the earlier order of the High Court had been challenged before a division bench and that no interim orders had been passed in those appeals. He produced Google Earth and Landsat images to contend that the lake spread was around 461 acres. The AAG argued that the ‘Descriptive Memoirs’ reflected the “shikam’ (tank-bed) area and could not by themselves be treated as conclusive evidence for determining the FTL.

The High Court suo motu impleaded the HMDA as a respondent in the batch of writ petitions and adjourned the hearing to October 5.

Police Move Telangana High Court Over Rejection of Remand for Two BRS MLCs

The police on Monday approached the Telangana High Court challenging the rejection of remand of BRS MLCs Tata Madhusudhan and N. Naveen Kumar Reddy, who were arrested for allegedly making derogatory and demeaning remarks against Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar during the recent Assembly session.

Justice B.R. Madhusudan Rao issued notices to the two MLCs and directed them to submit their responses by September 13, when the court will hear the criminal petition filed by the Sultan Bazaar ACP in the matter.

In the petition, the ACP argued that the 1st Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, had rejected the remand and releasing the two accused on execution of bonds and furnishing sureties. He contended that the release was nothing but granting bail. The prosecution argued that the magistrate had no jurisdiction to grant such relief in a case involving offences under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, as such offences were triable by the designated Special Court.

Public prosecutor Palle Nagesh Kumar Rao, appearing for the ACP, sought setting aside of the magistrate’s September 8 order and permitting the prosecution to arrest and remand the two MLCs. He submitted that the accused had allegedly used humiliating and derogatory words against the Speaker, thereby lowering the dignity of the highest office of the Legislative Assembly.

The police argued that the magistrate neither had jurisdiction to try the offences nor the power to commit the case to the Sessions Court. Since the offences under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act were triable by the designated Special Court, the accused ought to have been forwarded to the jurisdictional Special Court.

Can’t Keep Land in Prohibitory List Once Waqf Tag Set Aside by Court: HC

The Telangana High Court made it clear that once judicial orders declared that certain land parcels did not constitute Waqf property, or set aside gazette notifications under which the land was included as Waqf property, the authorities could not continue to retain the land in the prohibitory register merely on the ground that the Chief Executive Officer of the Waqf Board had no statutory power or jurisdiction to delete the entries.

Justice Laxmi Narayana Alishetty was dealing with a writ petition filed by Pasham Lakshman Goud and others seeking deletion of 32.26 acres in Survey No.s 626, 638, 639 and 640 of Chantanapally, Farooqnagar mandal, Rangareddy district, from the prohibitory register.

The land had been notified as Waqf property under AP Gazette No.36-A in 2003. The High Court in 2024 set aside the gazette notification, as the subject land was private properties since the Khasra and other sequent revenue records. Despite this, the authorities did not delete the land parcels from the prohibitory list. Waqf authorities defended that they have no authority or jurisdiction to delete it from the list whereas the registration authorities sought approval from the Wakf Board.

The judge held that an administrative authority could not act contrary to law declared by a competent court or disregard a judicial determination that had attained finality. It observed that an administrative record could not acquire independent legal validity merely because an erroneous entry remained uncorrected. The court held that the petitioners were not seeking a direction to an authority to exercise a power it did not possess, but consequential correction of official records by the competent authority in conformity with the binding judgments of the High Court.

The court directed the authorities to delete the 32.26 acres from the prohibitory register and carry out consequential corrections in the relevant records within four weeks.

Supreme Court to Hear Danam Nagender’s Plea Against Disqualification on Sept 23

The Supreme Court will hear on September 23, the appeal filed by former MLA Danam Nagender against his disqualification from the Assembly. Nagender had challenged the Telangana High Court’s judgment disqualifying him on grounds of defection. Seeking urgent hearing of the appeal, Nagender’s counsel on Monday mentioned the case.

A bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant took note of the urgency expressed by senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, who sought immediate hearing.

Rohatgi submitted that the High Court had declared Nagender disqualified on the basis of a petition which had earlier been rejected by the Assembly Speaker. He expressed apprehension that, following the High Court judgment, the Election Commission could issue a notification for a byelection to the Khairatabad Assembly constituency. He requested that the court hear the plea on Tuesday.

However, counsels for the BJP and BRS opposed the request and sought an opportunity to advance their arguments. Counsels for BJP Legislature Party leader Aleti Maheshwar Reddy and BRS MLA Padi Kaushik Reddy informed the court that their clients had filed caveats in the Supreme Court. Hence, the arguments of their side have to heard.