Hyderabad: A 68-year-old French woman who went missing three days ago was found murdered in bushes at Himayatsagar on Saturday. Later in the day, police arrested three persons, including the victim’s adopted daughter, in the murder case.

On Thursday, Cyberabad police received a complaint that Marie Christine, 68, a founder of Marica School at Dargah Khalij Khan in Gandipet, went missing on Wednesday night.

During the examination of suspects based on the information given by her family members, police picked up the victim’s 24-year-old adopted daughter, Roma.

On questioning her, police found that Marie was already murdered and her body was dumped in bushes at Himayatsagar. Later, police announced the arrest of Vikram Sriramulu and Rahul Gowtham along with Roma.

DCP (Shamshabad) N Prakash Reddy said Marie was looking for an alliance for Roma and she even uploaded her details on a matrimonial portal. Two months ago, they came across Vikram’s profile on the portal. Without the knowledge of the victim, Roma started to stay with Vikram at Kondapur, police said.

Marie did not like Vikram. When she came to know that Roma was staying with him and wanted to marry him, the victim rejected the proposal. “Roma decided to eliminate Marie and she conspired with Vikram and his friend Rahul. On the day of the murder, Roma visited the residence of Marie. Later, the victim dropped Roma at their school in Tolichowki in their car and returned to her house at Khalij Khan. By this time, the other two accused were already waiting for the victim as per plan,’’ Prakash Reddy said. Vikram and Rahul scaled the wall and got into the house and strangulated Marie to death. They stuffed the body in her car, drove it up to Himayatsagar and dumped it in a bush. They returned to her house and parked the car, police said. The accused also stole her phone and a laptop and transferred Rs 2 lakh from the victim’s account to Roma’s account.

The French woman has been living in Hyderabad for the last three decades and set up a few schools in city. She also gave shelter to several orphans. Marie had two biological daughters — Marie Solange, who resides in Hyderabad, and Rebecca, who stays in Puducherry. When Roma was a month old, Marie had adopted her as she was an orphan. Her biological daughters suspected Roma’s role in the murder as she has been staying away from their mother following a dispute.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: To avoid duplication in the birth registration of adopted children in more than one local self-government institution, the state government has asked the families to initiate steps to cancel the registration done before permanently registering the birth within the limits of the LSG in which they reside.

The government had earlier given permission to families that adopted children to register the birth in the LSG where they reside, after submitting an application in the registration unit in which they are included. However, it led to duplication of birth certificates as some births were registered in the same local self-government institution.

Given the situation, the women and child welfare department had asked the State Birth and Death Registrar to take necessary steps to avoid duplication. Considering the demand of the women and child welfare department, the government in a circular issued on March 10, asked the parents of adopted children to cancel the birth registration done in the LSG where the adopted family also intended to register the birth with new permanent address.

The institutions that keep the children till adoption usually register the birth of children with the local self -government and give their address as the place of residence. The adopted family should submit an application to the Birth and Death Registrar in the LSG in which they live to cancel the birth registration done earlier.

Ms Georgeta Nicolaie, a Romanian national, will become Director of the ‘Investigation and Disciplinary Office of the Commission’ (IDOC) in DG HR as of 1 August 2019. Ms Nicolaie joined the European Commission in 2007, after having worked as a judge in different areas of law, as well as and in several legal organisations promoting and applying the fundamental principles of law. She first became a head of unit in the Commission in 2009 and has been in charge of the unit ‘Investigation and Disciplinary Affairs of the Commission’ in DG HR since 2017.

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Shining a Light in the Playroom: Improving Transparency in Inter-Country Adoptions Under the Hague Convention.
Public International Law
Human Rights
Rule of Law

As international adoptions increase, so do the concerns that children are adopted in a safe and transparent manner.  This panel will provide a timely discussion of the use of third party intermediaries in the international adoption process and what sort of due diligence is necessary in order to ensure that the third party intermediaries meet the requirements of the Hague Convention on Inter-Country Adoptions as well as national and international anti-corruption regimes.

Sponsoring Committees:
Anti-Corruption Initiatives & Compliance Issues Committee and International Human Rights Committee

Program Chairs:
Carolyn Lindsey (Moderator), TRACE International, Annapolis, MD
Kathleen Hamann, U.S. Department of Justice, Alexandria, VA

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Press release of January 26, 2024

A first in the world of international adoption in France: a judicial investigation opens for adults born in Romania.

Subject : Opening of a preliminary judicial investigation for the following offenses:

• Arrests,
• Kidnappings,
• Sequestration or arbitrary detention of minors under 15 years of age,
• Assistance with the entry, movement or illegal stay of a foreign minor in the territory of a state other than that of origin
• Distance from the family environment

The Racine&dignité group officially announces the opening of a preliminary judicial investigation decided by the Paris Prosecutor concerning illicit trafficking in the context of international adoptions and the arrival on French territory of Romanian children with short-term visas for medical care.

A Chinese-born Swedish woman finally reunited with her biological parents in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, on March 2 after an arduous seven-year search for them, local media Dushikuaibao reported.

Ye Xiaofeng, 23, was abandoned at the Hangzhou Children's Welfare Institute on July 27, 2001, three days after her birth.

She was adopted by a couple from Umea, Sweden, in 2003.

In 2017, the 16-year-old Ye traveled alone to Hangzhou in search of her biological parents.

With the help of a TV program and local police, she returned to the Hangzhou Child Welfare Institute and found the nursery governess and several witnesses from that time, but not her parents.

Laura Williams of the Garden Court Family Law Team represented the local authority.

This is the first reported decision where the court dispensed with parental consent in an adoption case with a surrogacy background.

The child, ‘N’, was born as a result of a surrogacy arrangement in 2005. The child’s biological father (but not legal father) and his wife wanted to adopt N, as it was not possible to obtain a parental order with no consent forthcoming for this.

N, now 18 years old, had been brought up by the applicants since he was 18 months old. N considered the applicants to be his parents in all senses of the word, although in law they had no status as his parents. N supported the application. The respondent parents; the surrogate mother and her husband, opposed the application for adoption.

The local authority, who provided an adoption report into the suitability of the applicants to adopt, also supported the application. The court dispensed with the respondent parents’ consent on welfare grounds. This meant that the court decided N's welfare needs require an adoption order to be made, even if his legal parents did not agree.