India, March 13 -- Shikha Gautam, a UPSC candidate from Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr, checked her result on March 6 "in a hurry" and celebrated her "success" with her family. Even the media picked up her story as that of a daughter of a peon cracking the civil services exam.

But the celebration was short-lived.

In the said "hurry", Shikha forgot that there can be more than one person with the same name. It was, in fact, another Shikha from Haryana's Rohtak who had cleared the UPSC exam. The candidate from Bulandshahr has now apologised for her mistake.

Shikha Gautam started celebrating as soon as she saw her name mentioned in the result PDF, but forgot to check her roll number. And she was not the only one in her family who made this mi...