62 had been declared lake land. Gopal cited a 2017 report by an earlier Hyderabad district collector confirming the same position to the High Court in a separate lake encroachment matter. Also Read Govt says Fatima Owaisi College outside Salkam Cheruvu FTL zoneThe petitioner argued that the appellate judgment in AS No. 62 as government lake land and held its sub-division legally untenable, had attained finality, a position an earlier district collector had also submitted before the court in PIL No 220 of 2015 concerning encroachments on Salkam Cheruvu. “These facts ought to have been disclosed before the High Court by the said officers, but they filed Memo USR 8 of 2026 asserting that portions of Survey No.