NEW DELHI — Police in India’s southern Karnataka state stated Wednesday they discovered a Russian lady and her two younger daughters residing in isolation in a faraway woodland cave.
The girl, recognized as Nina Kutina, 40, and her daughters, elderly six and 4, have been discovered through police all over a regimen patrol to Ramatirtha Hill, a well-liked vacationer website online at the coast of Karnataka, on July 9. Police officer Sridhar S.R. stated the circle of relatives have been residing within the cave for greater than per week.
Police stated they have been taking steps to repatriate Kutina to Russia for overstaying her visa. She and her kids had been moved to a close-by detention facility for foreigners residing illegally in India.
Police stated in a remark that Kutina spent her time within the cave meditating through candlelight, and that she instructed investigating officials she was once “serious about staying within the woodland and worshiping God.”
Sridhar stated Kutina instructed police that she had labored as a tutor of Russian language in Goa, a coastal vacationer state in southern India.
“It’s not anything however her love for journey that introduced her right here,” stated Sridhar.
He stated police discovered footage of Hindu deities at the within partitions of the cave the place Kutina have been residing. In {a photograph} supplied through the police, she is noticed in entrance of makeshift curtains product of crimson saris that coated the doorway to the cave.
The Russian Embassy in New Delhi didn’t right away reply to a request for remark.
The police remark stated Kutina despatched a message to her buddies after she was once discovered.
“Our non violent lifestyles within the cave has ended — our cave house destroyed,” she wrote within the message, consistent with the remark.
The Related Press contacted Kutina over the telephone however she declined to remark.
On Tuesday, she instructed information company Press Believe of India that she spent her days within the cave through portray, making a song, studying books, and residing peacefully together with her kids.
