Ekta Chaudhary has won the Femina Miss India crown

Ekta Choudhury, a 22-year-old from New Delhi, was Sunday night crowned Pantaloons Femina Miss India Universe 2009. She will represent the country at the global beauty pageant later this year.

Ekta Chaudhary has won the Femina Miss India crown. Sonakshi was declared the Miss India Sexy Legs while was Diksha was adjudged the Miss Fresh Face title. Harshita became the Miss Agile! Pooja Chopra won the Miss India World. Shreya Kishore was declared Miss India Earth.

Niharika Naganda was declared Miss India Beautiful eyes.

Priyanka Chopra, Genelia D'Souza also performed on the occasion.

The judges panel included Madhur Bhandarkar, Ajay Devgan, Sushmita Sen, Asin, Deepika Padukone; fashion designer Nandita Mahtani, IGM managing director Ravi Krishnan, fashion magazine editor Mickey Bourdman, and Lakme advisor Anil Chopra.

The twenty contestants from across the country who made it to the semi-final round were Tulip Bhattacharya, Sonakshi Sajnani, Shriya Kishore, Ragini Dwivedi, Pooja Hegde, Nishtha Khadiwala, Niharika Nag, Nandini Vaid, Karishma Karnik, Ishita Sarkar, Harshita Saxena, Hanika Paryani, Faith Pandey, Ekta Chowdhry, Dimple Patel, Deeksha Seth, Aparajita Sharma, Akanksha Yadav and Aarohi Kadam.