Chandigarh, July 18 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has dropped suo motu proceedings initiated in June on a news report about environmentalists and locals opposing reported felling of trees in Gurugram by a realtor.

The proceedings were dropped after Gurugram deputy conservator of forest Raj Kumar in an affidavit had informed the court that the parcel of land on which permission for cutting of trees was granted to realtor DLF Ltd is a private land and it neither falls in protected forest nor in reserved forest and has also not been notified under Aravalli plantation.

The court was also informed that the developer had taken permission for felling of trees and it was granted after proper field inspection.

The suo motu was initiated ...