Even during the rainy season, she was living with her daughters with very few resources.
New Delhi: Forty-year-old Russian woman Nina Kutina alias Mohi was heartbroken when she was taken out of the cave in which she had been living for the last two months along with her two daughters Preya (6) and Ama (4). Nina was recently rescued from a dangerous cave located in the Ramatirtha hills of Kumta taluk in Uttara Kannada district. Now she will be sent back to her country Russia.
Who discovered the Russian woman and her daughters?
The police had arrived in the forest during routine patrolling when they noticed some movement around the cave. There was a plastic sheet on the door of the cave and when the police went inside, they saw a little girl playing inside and Nina sleeping with her other daughter.
The mother and daughters were rescued by Gokarna police sub-inspector Sridhar SR and his team. Sub-inspector Sridhar told The Indian Express that Nina first came to India in 2016 on a business visa and stayed in Goa. But soon she was drawn to Hinduism and took refuge in spirituality in the holy coastal town of Gokarna in Karnataka.
Why did she stay in the forest?
Nina’s visa expired in April 2017, but she decided to stay here and chose to live in the forest instead of living in densely populated places to avoid immigration officials. For the last eight years, she has been living in the forests, away from people. In 2018, she got an exit permit, after which she went to Nepal for some time but then returned to India and started living in the dense forests of Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka. In the forest, she lived in complete isolation with her two daughters where there was no connection with the outside world and no modern facilities. The cave in which Nina was living for the last two months is covered with wild grass and there is a great danger of landslides here.
What did the police find inside Nina’s cave?
The police said that a statue of Lord Shiva, Russian books and pictures of Hindu gods and goddesses were found inside the cave where Nina was staying. The police said that both of Nina’s daughters were born in India, but when she was asked about the father of her daughters, she refused to tell anything about it. Officials are currently investigating whether Nina took any medical help during the delivery of her daughters while living in the forest.
When the police asked Nina to leave the cave, she was not ready at all. When the police said that this forest is full of poisonous snakes and living there is not free from danger, Nina replied, “Snakes are our friends and they do not harm us as long as we do not harm them. When we go to take a bath in the nearby waterfall, snakes keep roaming around us, they do not harm us.”
Nina agreed to come out of the cave when she was told that there is a fear of landslides around the area.
How did she and her daughters survive?
The police said that even during the rainy season, Nina was living with her daughters with very few resources and had stored enough food items. She used to go to the nearby town with her daughters to buy things and charge the phone and then soon came back to the cave.
Both of her daughters are very healthy and energetic and when they were brought to an ashram after rescue on Friday last week, they were very happy to see the lights, beds and other things. They had never lived in such an environment before.
