NEW DELHI (AP) \u2014 Police in India\u2019s southern Karnataka state said Wednesday they found a Russian woman and her two young daughters living in isolation in a remote forest cave.<\/p>\n
The woman, identified 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 officer Sridhar S.R. said the family had been living in the cave for more than a week.<\/p>\n
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 foreigners living illegally in India.<\/p>\n
Police said in a statement that Kutina spent her time in the cave meditating by candlelight, and that she told investigating officers she was \u201cinterested in staying in the forest and worshiping God.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sridhar said Kutina told police that she had worked as a tutor of Russian language in Goa, a coastal tourist state in southern India.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is nothing but her love for adventure that brought her here,\u201d said Sridhar. <\/p>\n
He said police found pictures of Hindu deities on the inside walls of the cave where Kutina had been living. In a photograph provided by the police, she is seen in front of makeshift curtains made of red saris that covered the entrance to the cave.<\/p>\n
The Russian Embassy in New Delhi didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
The police statement said Kutina sent a message to her friends after she was found.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur peaceful life in the cave has ended \u2014 our cave home destroyed,\u201d she wrote in the message, according to the statement. <\/p>\n
The Associated Press contacted Kutina over the phone but she declined to comment.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, she told news agency Press Trust of India that she spent her days in the cave by painting, singing, reading books, and living peacefully with her children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI (AP) \u2014 Police in India\u2019s southern Karnataka state said Wednesday they found a Russian woman and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13214,57,1567,2936,47715,50,47716,15228,257,16524,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-67572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-general-news","10":"tag-india","11":"tag-law-enforcement","12":"tag-new-delhi","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nina-kutina","15":"tag-oddities","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-south-asia","18":"tag-world","19":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114863804588441860","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}