gurgaon to compete with upmarket liquor shops in delhi the ones in gurgaon too seem to be in overdrive most of the liquor vends in the city have extended their shop area illegally and there is nobody to check the menace as authorities pass the buck even as residents face problems the excise department on its part says that its role is restricted to issuing the licence and it has no control over these vends on the other hand the civic agency claims that since these shops operate on private land they cannot take action without a complaint from the land owner we neither provide shops to the licence holder nor do we define the shop area it is entirely up to the owner to decide the size of the shop depending on the size of business he is able to generate we only define the command area the roads and places from where these liquor shops can operate once we demarcate the area it is entirely the the individuals choice whether he wants to take a place on rent or purchase that property to start a liquor shop the size of the shop is therefore dependent on his paying capacity said anoop singh deputy excise and taxation commissioner gurgaon he says his department is not responsible for the encroachments encroachment is very common everywhere in the country and is not restricted to liquor shops there is nothing much my department can do about this problem since most of the time these shops operate from rented premises if the owner of the land feels his land is being encroached upon he should approach the authorities like huda or mcg to complain and these authorities can then remove these encroachments he explained the residents though say that this menace should stop all over the city and even in places outside ambience mall and signature tower these shops seem to be expanding and there is nobody to check this illegal growth said pooja gupta a sector 31 resident