While the nation has been cracking down with the agitation and the uproar which had erupted against the prejudiced amendment of the Citizenship Bill and the National Register of Citizens that consents the government to detain the illegal immigrants, the state of Karnataka has installed its first detention camp in the outskirts of Bengaluru to lodge the immigrants that had contradicted the assertion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who, on Sunday claimed that there are no detention centers in India. 

The reports had pictured the appalling developments which revealed that the state government of Karnataka had set up the detention center near Nelamangala which is about 40 kilometers from Bengaluru. Peddappaiah, the commissioner of the Social Welfare department has said that the state has opened the center which is ready to lodge the illegal immigrants. It has been reported that the state government, while scheduled to open the center in January 2020, has launched in advance with accord to the directive received from the Central government.

Peddappaiah stated that the authorities have been prepared to host the immigrants with adequate infrastructure and staff once the Foreign Regional Registration Office locates the illegal immigrants and sends them to the center. 

The reports cited that the state government has renovated a hostel belongs to the social welfare department into a detention center and the installed facility has six rooms, a security room, a kitchen, and a capacity of detaining 24 people in its premises and the security mechanisms have been gripped in the center as the premises has two watchtowers and the compound wall has been cemented with barbed wire.

The installation of the state's first detention camp has come after the state government had notified that about 612 cases have been filed against nearly 866 individuals who hail from different countries residing in the state under the grounds of Foreigners Act and the BJP led Karnataka government had, in November, disclosed the state's High court as its response to the bail petitions filed by two illegal immigrants from Bangladesh in which it claimed that the state currently has about 35 temporary detention centers to lodge the illegal immigrants.