chandigarh the punjab and haryana high court on thursday stayed the notice issued by the municipal corporation of gudgaon mcg to private builders having land in the gwal pahari area for fresh demarcation of landthe builders including paras buildtech were accused of encroaching upon a natural nullah in the area after which the district administration had issued a notice and initiated proceedings for fresh demarcation of their land while staying the notices issued by the mcg and the administration on march 30 and subsequent proceedings justice amit rawal of the hc also issued a notice to the haryana government mcg and district authorities of gurugram seeking their replies on the issuetwo local residents vaishali rana chandra and sharmila kaushik have also been asked to file replies on the contentions raised by the petitioner builders both of them were taking up the matter with local administration for conducting fresh demarcation the matter would now come up for hearing on august 3the single bench passed these orders while hearing a petition filed by the paras buildtech and associated companies including fantasy buildwell pvt ltd solitaire softech and cordial infrastructure pvt ltdthe petitioners had sought directions to quash the notice issued on march 30 and subsequent proceedings whereby mcg had sought to conduct a fresh demarcation process directions have also been sought to implement the demarcation report of april 8 2016 regarding the property the builders said that they were incorporated companies and part of the paras group of companies and enjoys an enviable reputation in real estate industry it was stated that they were owners of land of different sizes in the revenue estate of gwal pahari area of sohna tehsil in gurugram and were granted licences to develop a group housing societies on the land by haryanas department of town and country planning tcp other necessary permissions were also accorded by the forest department regarding environment clearances for the projectthe court was told that around rs 96 crore has been incurred by them in raising construction of residential group housing project on the land and around rs 11 crore has been deposited for external development charges with the statethe petitioners claimed that a demarcation has already been done by the administration on april 8 and 9 2016 but the same had not been implemented they said that once the demarcation was done there was no need for fresh demarcation thus the notice issued on march 30 should be set aside