Gachibowli collapse: officer benched
Two workers are dead. The Cyberabad Municipal Corporation has suspended its Circle 50 Town Planning Building Officer for “failing to stop” an unauthorised seven-storey build in Anjaiah Nagar. The files on what enforcement actually happened are the part that matter now.
The collapse in Anjaiah Nagar has left questions about notices, enforcement and accountability.
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CMC Commissioner G. Srijana on August 22 suspended Town Planning Building Officer U. Santosh Kumar (Circle 50, Madhapur) after an under‑construction, unauthorised multi‑storeyed building collapsed in Anjaiah Nagar, Gachibowli, killing two workers, according to reports citing the suspension order and CMC documents. The order cites a “failure to take necessary action to stop the unauthorised construction,” which “resulted in loss of life and endangered public safety.”
CMC’s Town Planning report, as described in those reports, records the structure at H.No. 1‑60/113/135/1 as Ground + 6 floors and a penthouse, built “without obtaining the required building permission and without maintaining the prescribed setbacks,” and says notices were issued on June 17. CMC also asked Raidurgam police to register a criminal case against alleged builders Farheen Siddiq and Md. Sajid. Those are allegations in a municipal complaint; no judicial finding exists in the material reviewed. Whether police registered an FIR, and under which sections, is not established in the available record.
HYDRAA’s A.V. Ranganath is quoted elsewhere suggesting the site sat on or near a nala/box drain and that excavation next door may have hit stability, but no engineering cause is on the record yet. Names of the deceased vary across reports; we are withholding them pending official confirmation.
The immediate demolition of another unsafe seven‑storey structure next door has been reported; residents and hostel occupants were evacuated. The unanswered file questions now: what enforcement followed the June 17 notices, whether a stop‑work was served and enforced, and who signed off on a seven‑plus‑one on that site — because two workers paid for the paperwork with their lives.