In a major crackdown on illegal Bangladeshi's living in the city, the Bengaluru Police arrested 60 illegal immigrants from various parts of the city on Sunday.

According to the cops, 29 men, 22 women and 9 children have so far been taken into custody. They were living in the outskirts of the city--Ramamurthynagar, Bellandur and Marathahalli, said police.

The police will now deport all these illegal immigrants to their native countries within a week's time, said sources. As of today, they are being housed in a government-run shelter home, sources further said.

On December 6, 2018, India Today TV had reported about the presence of thousands of illegal Bangladeshi nationals living in tin sheds on the banks of the Kundalahalli lake after Mahadevapura constituency MLA Arvind Limbavali spoke about the issue on social media.

At a press conference conducted by city police commissioner Bhaskar Rao, the police said that these suspected illegal immigrants were living in shanties in the peripheral areas of the city falling under Ramamurthynagar, Bellandur and Marathahalli.

Bhaskar Rao further said that along with the illegal Bangladeshi's, 22 Nigerians were also rounded up.

"These people do not have passports or visas and have entered the country and made their way to Bengaluru in search of occupation," Rao said. He also added that these people work under a contractor to collect plastic.

"We had confirmed data/information about the presence of these immigrants in the city. Hence, we followed up and conducted this operation, identified them and took them into custody. The police have decided not to file cases because then these illegals will spend time in local jails in the city rather they are seeking deportation orders at the earliest," Rao further said.

Most of these Bangladeshi nationals were working as daily wage labourers in the construction sector and some even were working for the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). Intelligence agencies are now probing how they managed to get Aadhaar and Voter ID cards as well.

One of the arrested illegal immigrants, when questioned, said that they have no documents to prove their citizenship.

This comes after Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai recently said that is no question of dropping NRC in the state.

While referring to the presence of illegal immigrants in the state, the BJP leader had said, "the policy has to be taken up by the government. We are only collecting the database on immigrants, which we will give to the home ministry".