New Delhi, July 16 -- Nina Kutina, the Russian woman whom the police rescued with her two daughters from Gokarna cave during a routine inspection, revealed that she practiced pooja, meditation during her stay there and avoided visiting hotels to escape from identification.

She said they were not dying there, children Preya (6) and Ama (4), played with clay happily and snakes were their friends, while defending her living there. The police have found some Russian books from the place as well.

"The snakes are our friends and they don't harm us unless we trouble them," Indian Express quoted the woman as saying.

With the assistance of counsellors, she opened up that she gave birth to one of the children in a Goa cave and children's father ...