No Immersion in Hussainsagar: GHMC

Hyderabad: Hyderabad police and the GHMC have placed flexes with the message ‘No Idol immersion on Tank Bund, as per Hon’ble High Court of Telangana State’ at every hundred metres on Tank Bund and the roads leading to it. The authorities are also installing 10-foot-high fencing on the Tank Bund to prevent idol immersion.

This blanket ban comes on the back of an order of the High Court, passed in 2021, banning the immersion of plaster of Paris (PoP) idols in the lake. The civic authorities responded saying they were inspecting the idols along with the police and barring the PoP idols from being immersed in the Hussainsagar.

Some devotees however were seen PoP idols, most of them small, in the lake.