I came to Chennai on 12th Jan 2022 for some visa related things. I was staying in Welcom By ITC on Cathedral Road. In the evening, decided to go for a quick drive towards Marina beach. I took U turn from the hotel, took the flyover towards Marina. After getting down from the flyover, there is a traffic light, which was orange, and I drove past that. I'm pretty sure even by the time I crossed to the other side of the junction, it was orange.
Soon after, 3 traffic cops pulled me over and said I jumped the light. I said, it was orange, they agreed but said, it has to be green only(then don't know what is the meaning of orange). Because of language challenges(I'm non-Tamil speaking) and no intention to have an argument with them. So, I was ready to pay fine and move on.
But they soon insisted that they'll help me and just pay Rs 800 and go. Again because of their insistent and unable to communicate properly using English, I just had to give them Rs 800 to get away from that situation.
Hope someone takes note. This is on 12th Jan 2022 around 5:45pm and location was mentioned above. Was this information helpful? | 
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