Kiran Bedi to get Krantiveer award

Ujjain, MP, Mar 19 (UNI) Honoured with various prestigious national and international awards, India's first woman IPS officer Kiran Bedi will be conferred with the National Krantiveer Award for 2007.

The award -- instituted in the memory of late freedom fighter Ramchandra Raghuvanshi 'Kakaji' in 1988 -- would be bestowed on Ms Bedi at a function to be organised in this temple town on April 4.

Social activist Omprakash Khatri said the function is organised on the banks of river Narmada every year.

The list of recipients of the award include: Zee TV's 'India's Most Wanted' Director Shoaib Illyasi (1999), Late Flt Lt Sandeep Jain (2000), water expert and Magsaysay award winner Rajendra Singh (2001), Tehalka.com's journalist Tarun Tejpal (2002), former minister and film actor late Sunil Dutt (2003), veteran filmmaker Ramanand Sagar (2004) and Mr Anirudh Bahl, who was behind the Operation Duryodhana, in 2006.

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