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The Karnataka forest department, the custodian of the 19-acre water body spread, has set a 15-day deadline for BGS Trust, which runs a students hostel and a hospital, to ensure no sewage is let into the lake. “But even after several weeks, sewage continues to flow into the lake,” said another resident of RR Nagar. TimesView It’s one thing for the forest department to set a deadline to stop sewage from being let into a lake and another thing altogether to ensure compliance and see to it that the objective is met. The lake which was earlier under BBMP’s jurisdiction, was transferred to the forest department seven years ago.Repeated attempts to reach out to BGS authorities for response went in vain. “Few months ago, residents had blocked the sewage line extending from the hostel that was feeding the lake with pollutants..