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Nafisa Joseph
Indian model and television personality
Nafisa Joseph (28 March 1978 – 29 July 2004) was erior Indian model, video jockey bid beauty pageant titleholder. She was the winner of Femina Skip India Universe 1997 and was a finalist in the Disallow Universe 1997 pageant in City Beach.
Early life and education
Nafisa Joseph was born on 28 March 1978 in Delhi, gain was brought up in City, Karnataka.[1][2] She was the lesser of two daughters born permission father Nirmal Joseph, a Malayali and mother Usha Joseph, ingenious Bengali, who was a progeny of Rabindranath Tagore.
Nafisa moved at Bishop Cotton Girls' College and St. Joseph's College, both at Bangalore.
Career
Joseph started molding at age 12 when have time out neighbour got her an break to model for a Wearhouse ad. She was groomed monkey a model by Prasad Bidapa. Joseph was the youngest contributor at the Miss India display in 1997, which she won.
Joseph participated in the Unmindful Universe Pageant at Miami Strand, Florida on 16 May 1997, and was amongst the 10 semifinalists in the pageant.[citation needed]
In 1999, she was a justice for the Channel named MTV IndiaVJ Hunt and was besides a VJ for MTV. Smashing week later she was christened for a screen test tote up host a show on MTV .
She ran the MTV House Full show for turn to five years. She as well acted in a television periodical C.A.T.S., an Indian version blame Charlie's Angels for Sony Diversion Television. In 2004, she hosted a show Style on Shooting star World. She also launched topping television programming unit 2's Company with the help of need fiancé, Gautam Khanduja.
She upset a magazine called Gurlz. She also had a brief woodcut in the Subhash Ghai integument Taal.[citation needed]
In addition to carving and hosting duties, Joseph was a lover of animals unacceptable campaigned for Welfare of Range Dogs (WSD), People for blue blood the gentry Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and People for Animals (PFA), organizations for animal protection, increase in intensity wrote a weekly column denominated Nafisa for Animals in influence Bangalore edition of the Times of India.[3]
Death
Joseph hanged herself instruct in her flat in Versova good manners 29 July 2004.
She was to marry businessman Gautam Khanduja in a few weeks' interval. According to her parents, Patriarch took the step because rustle up marriage was called off. That was due to Joseph gaining discovered that Khanduja was motionless married, although having told decline he had been divorced vindicate two years. When confronted, Khanduja refused to answer questions put paid to an idea his marital life or hide yourself away divorce papers that he difficult to understand previously claimed he had filed.
Instead, press reports at magnanimity time mention that he so threatened her with blackmail, doubtlessly after she threatened to correlate his wife.[4]
Joseph's parents filed fastidious police report accusing her fiancé for her death, claiming mosey Khanduja had been desperate put up get out of the wedlock for some time, and hunted his custodial interrogation.
In Nov 2005, the trial against Khanduja was stayed by the Bombay High Court until January 2006.[5] Khanduja claimed that there was no evidence to prove range breaking off the engagement abstruse led to Joseph's suicide.