Mangaluru: She was declared the winner during the grand finale held on Saturday night at the Milagres Hall in Mangaluru, where Serena Evjin secured the first runner-up title and Faye Martis was named the second runner-up. The beauty pageant attracted more than a thousand participants from across India and abroad, with twenty-five contestants eventually advancing to the second stage of the competition.
Shikha Sushil clinched the crown by shining in the final round’s various categories, including self-confidence, self-introduction, the ramp walk, the question-and-answer session, and the “X-factor” segment. Ronald Pinto, the Director of Hisna International, along with his wife Dorothy Pinto, honored the winners with their crowns and cash prizes of three lakh, two lakh, and one lakh rupees respectively. Furthermore, the other nine finalists who reached the grand finale were recognized with individual titles and awarded twenty-five thousand rupees each.