Goa, July 12 -- A dramatic incident took place atop Karnataka's Ramatirtha Hill in Gokarna, where a Russian woman and her two young daughters were found living in a remote, hazardous cave. On July 9, around 5:00 PM, Inspector Sridhar SR and his Gokarna police team, while patrolling the forested, landslide-prone area to ensure tourist safety, noticed movement near a cave. Upon closer inspection, they found Nina Kutina (40) with her daughters, Prema (6 years, 7 months) and Ama (4 years), residing in a makeshift shelter deep within the forest.

Kutina explained that she had traveled from Goa to Gokarna seeking spiritual solitude-hoping to meditate and pray away from the noise of city life. She had transformed the cave into a spiritual retrea...