‘They were very happy’: Russian mother defends decision to live with two daughters in remote Indian cave
UTTARA KANNADA DISTRICT, KARNATAKA, INDIA, JUL 12 – Nina Kutina overstayed her visa since 2017 and lived in a landslide-prone cave with her daughters for up to two weeks before police rescue and deportation steps began.
- A 40-year-old Russian woman, Nina Kutina, and her two children were rescued from a cave in Uttara Kannada, India, after living there for nearly two weeks.
- The Karnataka Police discovered them during a patrol on July 11, 2025, finding clothes hanging outside the cave.
- Authorities are arranging for deportation back to Russia, after moving Kutina and her children to an ashram for safety due to landslide risks, as mentioned by Superintendent of Police M. Narayana.
- Legal experts noted that the deportation process may take time and involve costs, stating that Kutina's children will not gain Indian citizenship because she was an illegal immigrant at their birth.
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It is not entirely clear how they ended up in the forest, which is full of poisonous snakes and wild animals.
The forests in southern India are teeming with snakes and wild animals, and landslides are threatening. But for a 40-year-old, it's the perfect place to settle there with her little daughters in a cave, until the police discover her.
Mum and daughters, 6 and 4, found living in abandoned forest cave alone for seven YEARS - The Mirror
Authorities in India discovered Nina Kutina, 40, and her daughters, aged six and four, during a routine patrol of Ramatirtha Hill, a popular tourist site on the coast of Karnataka
When she was consulted by the authorities about her decision to live there, the woman ruled that it was for a religious reason and explained that they liked to live there.
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