Kerala braveheart Sifiya Haneef conferred Neerja Bhanot Award

Chandigarh: A young braveheart from Kerala, Sifiya Haneef, was conferred with the Neerja Bhanot Award in a solemn ceremony here on Saturday. The award was presented to her by Wendy Sue Knecht, who also worked with the Pan American World Airways in the ’80s and had trained Neerja Bhanot in 1986. Knecht specially came here from Los Angeles for the award function. The award consists of Rs 1.50 lakh, a citation and a trophy. The award was instituted in 1990 in memory of Neerja Bhanot, who saved hundreds of lives while sacrificing her own when a Pan Am flight from Mumbai to New York was hijacked at the Karachi airport on September 5, 1986. A specially constituted jury comprising three Rotarians — Sneh Popli, Manjit Kaur and Anu Dhingra — selected Sifiya for the honour after she met the criteria laid down by the Neerja Bhanot Pan Am Trust, which stipulates that the awardee has to be an Indian woman who when faced with social injustice, overcomes it with guts and grit. (IANS)

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