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6 days ago
- CTV News
Indian police find Russian woman and her 2 daughters living in an isolated forest cave
Indian policemen rescue Nina Kutina, 40, a Russian woman, from a cave in a forest area of the Ramtirtha hills in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, Wednesday, July 9, 2025. (Uttara Kannada District Police via AP) NEW DELHI — Police in India's southern Karnataka state said Wednesday they found a Russian woman and her two young daughters living in isolation in a remote forest cave. 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. 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. Police said in a statement that Kutina spent her time in the cave meditating by candlelight, and that she told investigating officers she was 'interested in staying in the forest and worshiping God.' Sridhar said Kutina told police that she had worked as a tutor of Russian language in Goa, a coastal tourist state in southern India. 'It is nothing 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 photograph provided by the police, she is seen in front of makeshift curtains made of red saris that covered the entrance to the cave. The Russian Embassy in New Delhi didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. The police statement 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 message, according to the statement. The Associated Press contacted Kutina over the phone but she declined to comment. 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. The Associated Press
The Hindu
01-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
In the wake of Pahalgam terror, security agencies intensify inspection in Karwar
Officers of various security agencies are conducting a special operation in coastal areas of the State in the aftermath of the terror attack at Pahalgam in Kashmir. Officers of the Karnataka Coastal Security Police (CSP) and Uttara Kannada Police and other agencies are visiting ships and boats on the coast of Karwar and other towns and villages. The inspection visits have intensified in the last few days. A detailed inspection was held on Wednesday and Thursday. Security has been tightened along the coast and additional vigilance measures are being taken, officers say. 'Our officers are checking for various things, infiltration of enemy nation citizens, and other criminals and ferrying of contraband material or weapons. The inspecting teams are coordinating among one another and have been well trained. The operation will go on for some time, till further instructions are received,' a senior police officer said. Similar operations are on in other coastal districts of Karnataka, Goa and Kerala, the officer said. 'We are checking to see if any Pakistani nationals are travelling in any of the ships carrying imported material from the West Asian countries and other nations and if they are carrying valid documents. Inspecting officials have been instructed to ensure that no Pakistani gets off the boats and enters the State,' the officer said. 'If there are Pakistani crew members on ships carrying goods to the State, they are not allowed to disembark. All their documents, including their passports, are being collected. It is usual for cargo ships to arrive at commercial ports of Mangaluru and Karwar. Pakistani crew members tend to be on ships coming from Arab countries. Therefore, every cargo ship that arrives is being inspected,' another officer said. Fishing boats are also being inspected on the coast. Continuous inspections are being carried out at bridges and water channels. Surveillance is being maintained in sensitive areas and some residential colonies in the district, officers said. Karwar is a strategically important place as it has a nuclear establishment in Kaiga and the INS Kadamba Naval Base. It also has the Karwar commercial port. Work is on to build the Keni mega commercial port project which has been approved. Therefore, the State government is taking all precautions in terms of security, officers say.
