Karnataka: Russian woman Nina Kutina, rescued from a remote cave in the Ramatirtha hills of Kumta taluk, Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka, has defended her decision to live there with her two daughters, aged six and four. According to a report by The Indian Express, the family had lived in the cave for nearly two months before being removed by the authorities.
Kutina denied claims of neglect and danger, saying they lived peacefully and safely. “We were not dying,” she said. “It’s not a dangerous place; tourists visit often. We swam in waterfalls, cooked with gas and slept comfortably.”
The Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) handled their case before sending them to a rescue centre in Tumakuru.
“You give already a lot of lying information. We have big experience to stay in natural, in jungle, and we were not dying, and I did not bring my children, my daughters to die in jungle. They did not feel bad, they were very happy, they swam in waterfall, they lived, had very good place for sleeping, a lot of lessons with art making, we made from clay, we painted, we ate good, I was cooking with gas, very good and tasty food,” the 40-year-old said.
“They have everything best, they were happy, and dressed, and sleeping good, and art lessons, and lessons about how to write and read, and they were not dying from hunger, never, everything not true. I have a lot of websites like social net, my profile has a lot of video about our life experience, and a lot of years, different country, like near 20 countries I live, different forest, because we love natural,” she added.
Kutina said they were taken to the hospital despite her children showing no signs of illness. “They have never been sick. The cava was near a village, not deep forest,” she said, adding that snakes were rare and similar to sightings in populated areas.
‘First time daughters in hospitals’ despite ‘not one pain’
She specified, “Today they brought us to hospital for doctors, it was the first time my daughters were in hospital, they are full of health, not one pain they have, and not one time in their life they were sick. Because we love living natural, it’s just one reason, and this cave was not in like in big big forest, far far from all, and we could probably buy food or anything, it’s very close to village, and it’s very big and beautiful cave, and not small, and it’s like it has window to look to ocean.”
“It’s not a dangerous place, every tourist three minutes can come at place, and snakes for all time we live, yes we saw a few snakes, but same time in grove, Gokarna grove, people put a photo about snakes come to home, to kitchen, to toilet, to everywhere, it’s same same,” she described the situation.
She admitted her documents had expired, but disputed overstaying since 2017.
“It is lying, because they found my old passport, and they decide what it’s like, they did not check if it’s real true. We don’t have our visa, valid visa, our visa finished, but it was short time ago. After 2017, we already were in four countries, leave and then come back to India,” Kutina claimed.
“After I had my son, big son, he died, died, and because it happened, and it brought what my new visa, I stayed little more, but not so much, how they tell,” she detailed about her continuous living in India following her son’s demise.
Born in Russia, Kutina said she had not lived there for 15 years. She said, “After that, I was travelling a lot of countries, Costa Rica, Malaysia, Bali, Thailand, Nepal, Ukraine.”
