Hyderabad: Pradeep Constructions has approached the Telangana high court, challenging a GHMC show-cause notice proposing cancellation of its building permissions for a high-rise residential project in Somajiguda, allegedly located in the full tanl level (FTL) of the Hussainsagar Lake.The firm’s managing partner B Pradeep Reddy, in the petition, has sought quashing of the notice, contending that it is illegal, arbitrary, without jurisdiction and based on unverified material.Justice B Vijaysen Reddy, who heard the matter on Tuesday, directed the matter be posted before an appropriate bench.Earlier this month, the GHMC had issued show-cause notice to a 17-floor residential structure belonging to the firm on allegations of it being built within the FTL of Hussainsagar. The notice was issued under Section 450 of the GHMC Act which empowers the commissioner to cancel the building permission if found to have been obtained through material misrepresentation or fardulent statements. A probe is currently underway.Meanwhile, according to the petitioner, the firm obtained building permissions in 2018 and a revised permission in 2020 after scrutiny by GHMC and completed construction in 2025. It later applied for an Occupancy Certificate, but instead of processing the application, GHMC allegedly entertained complaints from a private rival claimant and initiated proceedings questioning the project’s title and location.However, the developer argued that the allegations rely only on a draft FTL map that has never been notified and therefore has no legal force. The firm also contended GHMC’s authority under the GHMC Act to reopen a building permission on the basis of pending civil disputes, third-party complaints or unnotified draft maps.The petitioner claimed that all construction was carried out strictly in accordance with sanctioned plans and stated that hundreds of homebuyers invested their life savings in the project. They would face irrepabale loss in case of cancellation of permissions or coercive action, he stated, requesting the HC to set aside the show-cause notice.
