Goa, July 18 -- A custody dispute has emerged in Karnataka after Russian national Nina Kutina and her two young daughters, Prema (6) and Ama (4), were discovered living in a remote cave near Gokarna. Police found the family on 11 July during a post-landslide inspection in the Ramatirtha hills. Kutina, 40, explained that her business visa had expired in 2017, and despite briefly leaving for Nepal in 2018 with an exit permit, she returned and began living in the forests along the coast. Following their discovery, local authorities placed the family in a government shelter. However, Kutina voiced dissatisfaction with the shelter's conditions and criticised the media's portrayal of their circumstances.

The girls' father, Israeli national Dro...