Instructions

Analyse the following caselet and answer the question that follow:

Purushottam Bhatnagar own and operates a sweetshop Puru and Sons. He is about 60 years old is eager to hand over the business to his sons Ratan and Pramod. He however, fears that his sons, fresh from college may not understand the tricks of the trade.

Question 42

Purushottam sends a batch of sweets to the police station across the street every day. Ratan construed it as a bribe and wanted to stop this practice.

Which of the following arguments, IF TRUE, would BEST convince Ratan NOT to given up this practice?

Solution

Options A, C and E are rejected as they point toward bribery. The police should not require any gifts for doing their jobs of stopping crime.

Option B is rejected as the size of the bribe does not matter.

Option E is the correct choice because if similar boxes are being sent to those other places, then it means that it is not meant to be a bribe.


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