HC tags Owaisi campus to lake case

The Fatima Owaisi Educational Campus fight is no longer its own island. After a July 6 High Court direction to maintain status quo, Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy on July 10 reportedly recalled that interim protection and ordered the writ by Salar‑e‑Millat Educational Trust to be tagged with a pending case on Salkam Cheruvu encroachments, to avoid conflicting orders. That folds a private dispute into the bigger question: who built what in and around the lake’s Full Tank Level, and who looked away while they did.

According to reports, the trust moved WP No. 21450 of 2026 after GHMC’s July 3 visit to its Bandlaguda property (Municipal No. 18‑13‑18; G+7 in Sy Nos. 62/2, 62/3), alleging threats of demolition and seizure. GHMC’s stand, as recorded in court reporting, is that the building sits in Salkam Cheruvu’s FTL and that related proceedings were already before another bench. A separate bench led by Justice N.V. Shravan Kumar has been pressing departments for answers on lake‑zone encroachments and why action skews against the poor while “influential” builds stand.

Here is what we can actually say today: the July 6 protection was reported recalled on July 10 and the petition was sent to travel with the Salkam Cheruvu matter. No August 3 order or outcome is publicly traceable in the accessible record. The Education Department has been quoted elsewhere on permissions and the government on FTL lines, but until the court record is in hand those remain parties’ positions, not findings.

This is infrastructure, not theatre: lakes are flood buffers and public assets. Telangana needs the law applied evenly — to trusts with big names and to anyone else — and it needs the Congress government in Hyderabad to stop speaking in two voices on FTLs and start filing the documents the bench asked for. The court has already noticed the double standards; the Congress state government still hasn’t answered them.