Meet Roshmitha Harimurthy Miss Universe India 2016

Roshmitha Harimurthy of Bangalore will have the opportunity to represent India at the 2016 Miss Universe Pageant on January 30, 2017 in the Philippines.

She won the title of Miss Universe India 2016 on September 1, 2016 at Westin Mumbai Garden City in Mumbai.

On April 9, 2016 Harimurthy also competed at Femina Miss India 2016 at Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai, India where she placed Top 5.

Apart from being a full-time model, Roshmitha is also a student at Mount Carmel College, Bengaluru.

Roshmitha Harimurthy with her crown

India holds the record for winning the Miss Universe crown and Miss World in the same year twice. Once in 1994 with Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai and again in 2000, Lara Dutta and Priyanka Chopra when India also won the third largest pageant Miss Asia Pacific by Indian Beauty Dia Mirza.

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