Chandigarh, April 3 -- The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday stayed till April 8, the next date of hearing, a 2024 Haryana government notification that allowed the construction of "stilt + 4 floor Policy" in state's urban areas, saying that it appeared that the state was putting people's safety at stake "merely to earn more revenue".

In its order, the two-judge bench, said that the government, ignoring the "desperate shortage of infrastructural requirement in Gurugram," had given a go-by to conduct an infrastructure capacity audit before implementing the policy. "It appears that the State of Haryana merely to earn more revenue has put the safety and security of members of general public at stake."

"It thus, seems that the State ...