Thiruvananthapuram: Five members of a Rohingya refugee family, including a six-month-old baby, were detained by the police on Tuesday, on their arrival from Hyderabad.

The detained persons have been identified as Thaiyoob (35), his wife Safura Khathoon (27), Arshad (25), Anwar Shah (11) and six-month-old Saffiyan. It is said that the family had come to India in 2012 and was living in Delhi before moving to Hyderabad three-years-ago. They even had UN refugee identity cards and had applied for a visa in Hyderabad, said sources.

They had reached Thiruvananthapuram on Monday seeking job, around 8 pm by train from Hyderabad. On reaching a place called Vizhinjam on Tuesday, the local Jamaat members informed the police about the family.

The family may be taken back to their camp in Hyderabad as their ID cards state that they should be protected from arbitrary detention or forcible return to Myanmar.

“The presence of Rohingya is confined not only to the northeastern states. They have reached south Indian states including Kerala,” Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had recently said, calling all Rohingya in India “illegal immigrants