The city police and its special branch (I Branch) have apprehended 692 Bangladeshi nationals in the last 2.5 years but have only managed to deport 169 people. Most cases are pending before the courts, and these illegal immigrants are out on bail due to the lack of a detention centre in the city. Officials noted that the recent arrests of Bangladeshi nationals by the ATS, who had also voted in the Lok Sabha elections, were earlier arrested by the I Branch of the city police, which specialises in tracking illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

According to official data from the city police, 177 Bangladeshi nationals have been apprehended by the city police and the I Branch so far this year, with 81 deported and the remaining cases pending before the courts. In 2023, the city police arrested 368 Bangladeshi nationals and managed to deport only 68 of them. In 2022, a total of 147 Bangladeshi nationals were arrested, and only 21 were deported.