Bills for houses HYDRAA broke
Sunnam Cheruvu residents say power and tax demands kept coming after 2024 demolitions. The High Court, meanwhile, keeps asking HYDRAA to first fix the lake boundary, then act.
At Sunnam Cheruvu, residents say bills continued after the September 2024 demolitions.
Residents around Sunnam Cheruvu in Madhapur say they are still getting electricity, property-tax and water bills for houses HYDRAA demolished in September 2024. One Telugu daily reported a Rs 26,330 property-tax demand on house no. 1-66/9/30/188 on 1,980 sq. yd., and quoted a resident, Radha, saying she continues to pay monthly power bills. These are resident claims; the outlet did not publish copies of the bills, and utility records were not available for checking.
What is on record is the demolition drive itself. Officials said at the time that sheds, hotels and other commercial structures standing in the Full Tank Level (FTL) of the lake — including in survey nos. 12, 13, 14 and 16 — were removed as encroachments. Protests broke out and police intervened during the September 8, 2024 action.
Also on record: the Telangana High Court kept pulling HYDRAA back to first principles. In March 2025, in a petition by Vadde Tara, the court directed HYDRAA to conduct a survey, earmark the FTL “strictly in accordance with law,” and only then proceed. In July 2025, on a plea by the SIET Maruthi Colony Welfare Association, the court ordered a two‑week status quo and told HYDRAA to notify residents before any further activity. By November 2025, the court was asking, flatly: what is the basis for fencing or excavation when the FTL itself has not been established?
HYDRAA’s stated position has been that illegal constructions reappeared after earlier clearances and that it acted against encroachments within FTL. None of that answers whether billing accounts tied to demolished structures were actually closed — and no utility or municipal body has put a response on the record yet.
A separate report in May 2026 quoted HYDRAA Commissioner A.V. Ranganath assuring Sunnam Cheruvu and Ramanthapur Cheruvu victims of 2BHK housing. That is an assurance, not delivery; no allotment order was available.
Two tracks, then: residents alleging bills for broken homes, and a court record that says the boundary work wasn’t finished when the machines rolled in. The paperwork would settle the first; HYDRAA was told to settle the second.