Praja Hakku

PRAJA HAKKU

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A G+6 under construction over a nala in Anjayya Nagar came down on Saturday. Two migrant workers are dead.

A G+6 under construction over a nala in Anjayya Nagar came down on Saturday. Two migrant workers are dead.

The building went up on a nala. On Saturday afternoon it came down on the men who were still building it.

Around 1 p.m. on Saturday, 22 August 2026, a G+6 under-construction structure collapsed at Anjayya Nagar in Kondapur. Two construction workers died. They are named on the locked card as Umesh Karre, 34, and Mopat, 42, both natives of Madhya Pradesh. Their bodies were recovered from the rubble during the search. Two is the death count this desk will print. A third death is not on the card and will not be invented.

Raidurgam Sub-Inspector Raama Swamy said the structure collapsed during construction as a part of the building was on top of a nala. There were lapses in the procedure, he said, and the legalities of the project were under investigation. Cases were booked against owner Syed Sajid and contractor Khaja Moinuddin. Booked is the verb. Convicted is a different verb. This desk will not invent a building-permission number, a HYDRAA demolition history, or an NDRF headcount.

A portion of the building fell onto an adjoining structure. Fire and rescue used a Victim Location Camera. The rescue was led by Regional Fire Officer Sudhakar Rao with district and station fire officers. Residents were counselled not to remain inside overnight. Reoccupation, the RFO said, would wait on a Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation structural-stability assessment scheduled for Sunday, 23 August. Scheduled is the only Sunday word this desk has. No Sunday finding sits on this card. This desk will not invent one.

An earlier Saturday afternoon card described a five-storey under-construction building on a 50-square-yard site over a nala in Anjaiah Nagar, Gachibowli, with police and HYDRAA searching debris and some people nearby with minor injuries, and officials suspecting an improper foundation. That earlier card did not lock the two deaths or the owner and contractor names. This desk will keep that five-storey description and the minor-injuries line separate from the later lock of G+6 and two dead workers. Storey count and death count are not merged here.

Kondapur and Gachibowli sit in the same western Hyderabad belt. Anjayya Nagar and Anjaiah Nagar are the place spellings on the opened cards. Rangareddy is the district. Raidurgam is the police station that booked the case.

What is missing is a permission number, a GHMC Sunday finding, a named neighbour casualty beyond the earlier minor-injuries line, and any compensation figure. What is present is a G+6 over a nala, a 1 p.m. collapse, two Madhya Pradesh workers dead, an owner and a contractor booked, a Victim Location Camera search, overnight counselling for neighbours, and a structural assessment that was only scheduled for Sunday.

Until GHMC writes the neighbour’s stability, the hit building is a caution, not a cleared home. Until a court writes, Syed Sajid and Khaja Moinuddin are accused on a police booking, not convicts. The nala under the slab is the fact that remains after the dust settles.