In a recent recruitment exam for 214 posts of Junior Engineer (Civil) conducted by the Bihar Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), Sunny Leone has topped in the merit list. Yes, you read it right! Sunny Leone had taken the PHED junior engineer exam and has qualified it. She may now serve the state as a Junior Civil Engineer.

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When the Bihar Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) invited applications for the post of a junior civil engineer, little did it think that the online application system would result in a strange prank that would lead Bollywood actor Sunny Leone’s namesake to top the merit list of registered candidates.

Not only has the topper’s name elicited responses on social media from the likes of Leone herself and Opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav, the bizarre arrangement of letters that make up the name of the third ranked engineer has also drawn questions on the legitimacy of the PHED ranking system.

The third rank in the list is occupied by someone whose name was entered as “bvcxzbnnb” and whose father’s name was listed as “mggvghhnnnn”. The second ranking Nirmal Chakraborty’s father is, oddly, called Om Puri, like the Bollywood actor who died in 2017.

“Courtesy to CM Nitish Kumar’s ‘farzi topper banao, farzi naukri pao’ education and recruitment policy, ‘Sunny Leone’ tops Bihar junior engineer merit list with 98.5 marks. Another candidate named, ‘BVCXZBNNB’ has also made it to the top 3rd rank of the list,” Tejashwi tweeted.

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As many as 18,000 people had applied for about 200 posts in the PHED. For this particular job, applicants were ranked in order of system-generated scores that were automatically arrived at after their engineering diploma marks and experience points were added. “Sunny Leone”, whose father’s name is listed as “Leona Leone”, received 98.5.

As soon as the news surfaced many netizens wished Sunny Leone for this achievement :

@SunnyLeone , Hope you must be aware that you just topped in Engineer merit list with 98.5 marks.

😊😊😊😊😊#SunnyLeone pic.twitter.com/7c2Rp9YIvc

— Vikash Ranjan (@vikashranjan55) February 20, 2019

Congratulations mam @SunnyLeone for securing first rank in Bihar JE.

Never saw this side of yours. #SunnyLeone #ThursdayThoughts

— GoWin (@gopiyaa) February 21, 2019

#SunnyLeone shocked on becoming topper, next time Daniel Weber bhi top karenge. https://t.co/sQnvb5eI3V

— Ruchika Jain 🇮🇳 (@RuchikaJ7566735) February 21, 2019

#SunnyLeone has topped the jr engg exam… !!
only question ,who was the examiner ? Johny sins!!
😑 pic.twitter.com/qd770oty6Q

— AnTarYaMi_बाबा (@srajat81) February 21, 2019

Sunny Leone is a better Engineer than me. SMH #SunnyLeone https://t.co/btDA92N1T6

— Sharma ji ka beta (@dagonsin9) February 21, 2019

#SunnyLeone Top the bihar polytechnic Exam , what rubbish going in bihar ,Education is being mocked in #bihar pic.twitter.com/BDgOwshTSe

— sandeep pandey (@sandeepekett) February 21, 2019

The actress herself was one to see the hilarity of the situation and tweeted in jest that she was glad an alter ego had done well. In a way of confirming that she is not the one who scored the highest marks she wrote “HAHA, Im so glad the OTHER me has scored so well !!!!! lol…”

HAHA, Im so glad the OTHER me has scored so well !!!!! lol… https://t.co/dV1RTQTN5J

— Sunny Leone (@SunnyLeone) February 20, 2019

However, there is no confirmation on whether the candidate is genuine, or whether a prankster had made an application, reported Hindustan Times.

Ashok Kumar, joint secretary (management) of PHED Bihar, told the newspaper that while they had indeed received the application, verification of the candidate, in fact of all candidates, is pending. “Yes, we received an application for the post with the name Sunny Leone whose father’s name is Leona Leone… But we cannot confirm whether this application is genuine. This can be confirmed only after certificate and document verification is done.”