You are the manager of a spare parts company A and you have to negotiate a deal with the manager of a large manufacturing company B. The deal is highly competitive and sealing the deal is critical for your company. The deal is being worked out over a dinner. After dinner the manager of manufacturing company B offered to drop you to the hotel in his car. On the way to hotel he happens to hit motorcycle injuring the motorcyclist badly. You know the manager was driving fast and thus lost control. The law enforcement officer comes to investigate the issue and you are the sole eyewitness to it. Knowing the strict laws pertaining to road accidents you are aware that your honest account of the incident would lead to the prosecution of the manager and as a consequence the deal is likely to be jeopardised, which is of immense importance to your company. What are the dilemmas you face? What will be your response to the situation?
What the examiner wants
Identify your dilemmas as the sole witness to a business partner's accident and decide how to respond.
Demand-wise check
- 1Stakeholders: injured motorcyclist and family, the manager, your company and employees, the other company, justice system≈50 words
- 2Dilemmas: truth vs business interest, loyalty vs justice, personal gain vs victim's rights, fear of losing jobs≈50 words
- 3Options: false statement (saves deal, perjury and injustice); silence (avoids conflict, denies justice); truthful statement (just, risks deal)≈50 words
- 4Response: first help the victim (ambulance, police), give a truthful statement, separate business from crime, explain to your management≈50 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
Where marks usually go
- Not helping the victim first
- Treating business loss as a valid reason for lying
Draw this
- Decision tree: false statement / silence / truthful statement → outcomes for victim, deal, self, justice
Value addition
- LawGiving false evidence is punishable (IPC 191/193, now BNS Sections 227/229).Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
- LawSection 134A of the Motor Vehicles Act protects Good Samaritans who help accident victims.MV (Amendment) Act, 2019
Mapped topper copies
Reviewed public-source references related to this PYQ. Same-syllabus references are labelled separately.
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 37 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Aakash Garg · AIR 5 · Page 39 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 31 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 35 ↗Same syllabus reference
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