Section 497(1) in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Act, 1955
(1)If it shall appear to the Commissioner that any building or any part of a building is in such a state as to constitute a nuisance or to be likely to give rise to one, by reason of rain-water leaking from its roof or any part of its roof, the Commissioner may give a notice in writing to the owner of such building requiring him to abate the nuisance or to prevent its recurrence within the time and by taking the measures and doing the acts to be specified in the notice.