Dror, husband of Russian woman Nina Kutina, who was rescued with her daughters from a Gokarna cave, said he was denied permission to meet them at the Tumakuru detention centre without written approval from the FRRO.

Officials said she had spent years in the country seeking spirituality and living among nature. But she faces deportation after overstaying her visa.

Nina Kutina, a Russian woman who was found living in a cave in Karnataka's Gokarna with her two daughters, also had a son from a previous relationship. The father of the two daughters found with the Russian woman is said to be an Israeli national, Dror Goldstein, who had filed a missing persons report in November last year.