New Delhi, Feb. 1 -- A US federal judge on Saturday (January 31) ordered the release of a five-year-old boy and his father from a Texas family detention centre after they were detained by immigration officers during a January raid in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that sparked nationwide outrage.

The boy, Liam Conejo Ramos, and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, had been held for more than a week at a facility in Dilley, Texas, after being taken into custody outside their home in suburban Minneapolis.

Images of Liam - wearing a blue bunny hat, a plaid coat and carrying a Spider-Man backpack - went viral after showing the preschooler standing in his snowy driveway as armed federal agents looked on.

In a blistering three-page order, US District J...