A namesake of Bollywood actor Sunny Leone had applied to two colleges of West Bengal for admission to bachelor’s degree in English Literature and to much surprise, the candidate made it to the merit list.
The name Sunny Leone first appeared in the merit list of an institution on Thursday, and a day after i.e. on Friday, a similar incident took place as the same name topped the merit list of another college in West Bengal.
The first list for the admission to BA(Honours) in English at Kolkata’s Ashutosh college which was announced on Friday on its official website showed the actor’s name at the top with the perfect 400 score in the best of four subjects in Class 12 board examination.
The list soon took the internet by storm, leaving netizens in splits. Sunny Leone, too, find out about it and made a hilarious comment. “See you all in college next semester!!! Hope your in my class;), ” she said in a tweet.
The students’ union of the institution has demanded a probe into the incident, while college authorities have called it an “act of mischief”. “Someone deliberately submitted a wrong application having typed Leone’s name. We have asked the admission department to correct it. We will also conduct an inquiry into the incident,” they said.
The incident has raised questions on the authenticity of online admission process that has become a compulsion amid the coronavirus pandemic. This is not the first time an incident of this nature has happened. Last year, the actor’s name appeared at the draft list for junior engineer post in Bihar Public Health Engineering Department.
Meanwhile, Sunny Leone is currently spending her quarantine time with her husband Daniel Weber and three kids -Nisha, Noah and Usher. The actor with her family flew to LA amid coronavirus pandemic to be with her in-laws.
