diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 39b5e0ea2..a3383022b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -15,3 +15,5 @@ env
 */archive.tar.gz
 tooling/bin
 tooling/image-sync/config.yml
+**/venv
+**/__pycache__
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tooling/azure-automation/resources-cleanup/requirements.txt b/tooling/azure-automation/resources-cleanup/requirements.txt
index 54c2e3990..288fc1819 100644
--- a/tooling/azure-automation/resources-cleanup/requirements.txt
+++ b/tooling/azure-automation/resources-cleanup/requirements.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ portalocker==2.8.2
 pycparser==2.21
 PyJWT==2.8.0
 pytest==7.4.4
-requests==2.32.0
+requests==2.32.3
 six==1.16.0
 tomli==2.0.1
 typing_extensions==4.9.0
diff --git a/tooling/azure-automation/resources-cleanup/src/resources_cleanup.py b/tooling/azure-automation/resources-cleanup/src/resources_cleanup.py
index 5a7b00f45..7db6841a4 100644
--- a/tooling/azure-automation/resources-cleanup/src/resources_cleanup.py
+++ b/tooling/azure-automation/resources-cleanup/src/resources_cleanup.py
@@ -120,10 +120,11 @@ def process_resource_group(resource_group: ResourceGroup, resource_client: Resou
         result_poller = resource_client.resource_groups.begin_delete(resource_group_name)
         print(f"result_poller of resource group deletion: {result_poller}")
     except HttpResponseError as err:
-        target_error_code = "DenyAssignmentAuthorizationFailed"
-        if err.error.code == target_error_code:
+        if err.error.code == "DenyAssignmentAuthorizationFailed":
             print("skipping deletion of resource group due to deny assignment in the resource group")
-        else: 
+        elif err.error.code == "ScopeLocked":
+            print("cannot perform delete operation, the resource group is locked")
+        else:
             raise err