CHENNAI: Traffic on a stretch of ECR was disrupted for about four hours on Thursday evening as 500 residents of Bethel Nagar at Injambakkam resorted to a flash road roko protesting against their eviction from the encroached parts of the marshland.
The Chennai district administration had begun retrieval of 164 acres of wetland after the Madras high court had warned revenue and district officials of punishment for wilful disobedience of its order.