Chandigarh, April 28 -- The high court on Monday said its stay on the Haryana government's 2024 stilt-plus-four floor policy will be applicable to Gurugram only and allowed authorities to continue demolition drives to remove encroachments affecting the right of way in the city. "The April 2 stay order on the state government's July 2024 notification would be limited to Gurugram," a bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sanjiv Berry said, noting that reports on encroachment and infrastructure were commissioned by the court specifically for the city. The detailed order is awaited. "We allow the authorities to remove encroachments/violations following due process of law," the court recorded, while posting the matter for further hearing on May 4. A stilt-plus-four-floor structure includes a non-habitable ground floor designated for parking (stilt level) and four residential floors above it. The Haryana government had authorised S+4 on residential plots, allowing independent registration for each floor. The high court had ordered a stay, citing infrastructure and safety concerns. The court while ordering the stay had said "it appeared that the state was putting people's safety at stake merely to earn more revenue". The court is dealing with a clutch of petitions from the residents of Gururgram and Panchkula challenging the Haryana government's July 2, 2024, notification. Earlier, petitioners' counsel had submitted that a policy can't be stayed in parts. ".before passing the April 2 order, the court had taken cognisance of an expert committee report that dealt with all districts, not only Gurugram," senior advocate Salil Sagar had submitted. Initially notified in 2019, the policy was put in abeyance in February 2023 due to opposition across Haryana. In 2023, an expert panel was constituted by the government presided over by Haryana Pollution Control Board chairman P Raghavendra Rao that recommended for infrastructure audit. A group of Gurugram residents moved the Supreme Court on Monday morning against the demolition drive but failed to get a relief. The apex court disposed of the petition and asked them to approach the high court. By noon, they filed an application in the ongoing PIL and requested court's intervention against the drive. "Without any notices, they are demolishing trees, gates, ramps in the garb of HC order. The drive is being carried out in the unrelated areas that were not even surveyed by the HC panel," senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, who appeared for the residents. Appearing for the state government, senior advocate Ankur Mittal told the court that the drive is to remove encroachments on the right of the way and for that no notice is required to be given....