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Indian Police Find Russian Woman And Her 2 Daughters Living In An Isolated Forest Cave
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By Associated Press
NEW DELHI — Police in India’s southern Karnataka
state said Wednesday they found a Russian woman and her two young daugh- ters living in isola- tion in a remote forest cave.
The woman, iden- tified as Nina Kutina, 40, and her daughters, aged six and four, were found by police during a routine patrol to Ramatirtha Hill, a popular tourist site on the coast of Karnataka, on July 9. Police offi- cer Sridhar S.R.
said the family had been living in the cave for more than a week.
Police said they were taking steps to repatriate Kutina
to Russia for overstaying her visa. She and her children have been moved to a nearby detention
facility for foreign- ers living illegally in India.
Police said in a statement that Kutina spent her time in the cave meditating by candlelight, and that she told investigating offi- cers she was “interested in staying in the for-
est and worship- ing God.”
Sridhar said Kutina told police that she had worked as a tutor of Russian lan- guage in Goa, a coastal tourist state in southern India. “It is noth- ing but her love for adventure that brought her here,” said Sridhar.
He said police found pictures of Hindu deities on the inside walls of the cave where Kutina had been living. In a photo- graph provided by the police, she is seen in front of makeshift cur- tains made of red saris that covered the entrance to the cave.
The Russian Embassy in New Delhi didn’t imme-
diately respond to a request for comment.
The police state- ment said Kutina sent a message to her friends after she was found. “Our peaceful life in the cave has ended — our cave home destroyed,” she wrote in the mes- sage, according to the statement.
The Associated Press contacted Kutina over the phone but she declined to com- ment.
On Tuesday, she told news agency Press Trust of India that she spent her days in the cave by paint- ing, singing, read- ing books, and living peacefully with her children.
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