Bengaluru, July 25 -- The Karnataka high court has directed the Union government to clarify its stand on the possible deportation of a Russian woman and her two children, who were found living in a cave in Gokarna, by the local police earlier this month. On July 23, Justice S Sunil Dutt Yadav said the Centre must take a clear stand on whether the woman's two minor daughters have valid travel documents and proof of birth, and if they can be deported. The judge granted the government two weeks to clarify its stand and said it must inform the court if any decision on deportation is taken before the next hearing. The court was hearing a petition filed by Dror Shlomo Goldstein, the estranged husband of the Russian woman, Nina Kutina, and the father of the two girls, seeking directions to the Centre to not deport her minor daughters Prema and Ama from India to "any other country." The petitioner has also urged the court to release his daughters from the detention centre, where they have been residing after they were rescued by the local police, and to hand over their custody to him. htc...