Chandigarh, June 20 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has initiated suo motu public interest litigation (PIL) on a news report about environmentalists and locals opposing reported felling of trees in Gurugram by a realtor.

The report carried on June 12 by an English daily had stated that residents and environmentalists have launched protests over allegations of the process of felling of nearly 2,000 trees on an estimated 40 acre of land in DLF Phase 5 in Gurugram.

The report said representatives of the Aravali Bachao Citizen's Movement also staged a protest outside a Haryana minister's residence and have also written to chief minister Nayab Singh Saini and union minister for environment for their intervention. The report had also quo...