The Russian woman found living in the karnataka cave with children come home

A Russian woman who made the front page of the world newspapers after being found living in a cave in India with her two young girls returned to her country, an official at the BBC told.

Nina Kutina, 40, and her daughters – aged six and five – were saved on July 9 by routine patrol police in a forest in the southern state of Karnataka.

The woman, who had no valid documents to stay in India, had been sent to a center for the detention of foreigners with her daughters.

Last week, the High Court of Karnataka asked the federal government to issue documents to Mrs. Kutina and her daughters to go home.

They left for Russia on September 28, an official of the regional registration office for foreigners (FRRO), who wanted to remain anonymous, told the Hindi BBC. The minor son of Mrs. Kutina of another relationship, who was then found alive in Goa’s state, also accompanied.

The High Court had heard a request filed by Dror Shlomo Goldstein, an Israeli businessman living in Goa, who said he was the father of the two minor daughters. He had asked the court to prevent children from being sent back to Russia and asked for their guard.

Mr. Goldstein has not yet commented on the court order. He has the opportunity to appeal, but it is not clear if a judgment in his favor could force children to be sent back to India.

Mr. Goldstein previously told a television channel that Ms. Kutina had left Goa without informing her and that he had filed a complaint for the police. He also said that he “provided that their (the woman and the two minor girls) well-being for a long time”.

In the ordinance, the court, however, said that despite the statements of Mr. Goldstein, the mother and the children had “inexplicably” “” found in an isolated cave “.

The court also said that Mr. Goldstein could not explain why they lived in the cave “until they were found there and that the authorities began to take action for their rehabilitation”.

The police team that found that the three had previously said that they were routine patrol near the hills of Ramteertha in the Gokarna forest, which borders Goa’s tourist paradise, when they spotted bright colors suspended near a cave.

When they got closer – the entrance to the cave had been braked with bright colors – they saw a “blonde little girl” exhausted. When the shocked police followed him inside, they found Ms. Kutina and the other child.

The three had meager possessions – plastic carpet, clothing, packets of instant noodles and other grocery articles – and the cave flees.

Police told the BBC in July that she had struggled to convince the mother that he was dangerous to stay in the isolated place with snakes and wild animals in the forest. The police quoted her saying: “Animals and snakes are our friends. Humans are dangerous.”

Police said they had told them that they had been living in the cave for a week when they were found. She also told the police that she had come to Goa Karnataka where she also claimed to have lived in a cave. She said that her youngest daughter was born in a Goa cave.

Ms. Kutina had defended her lifestyle in video interviews at the Indian news agency Ani, saying that she and her children were happy to live like that and that “nature gives good health”.

Police, however, said that they could not take any risks because the area was subject to landslides during the monsoon season.

Ms. Kutina and her daughters were taken for a medical examination and then transferred to a detention center.

Mr. Goldstein’s lawyer, Beena PK, argued before the court that deportation would not be in the interest of children, citing India being signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the provisions of the 2003 law on Goa children.

But the lawyer for the federal government, Aravind Kamath, told court that this case could not be described as an expulsion “because Mrs. Kutina herself had written to the Russian Embassy expressing her wish to return to her country of origin.

Documents show that the Russian Embassy offered Ms. Kutina and children an emergency travel window between September 26 and October 9.

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