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ID: LSAT-LR-55
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Principal
Difficulty level: Hard

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Public officials must avoid any decision-making role that could materially affect the fortunes of a company in which they, their spouses, or their dependent children hold stock worth more than ₹1 lakh. Participating in such decisions is unethical unless they have first divested that holding or placed it in a blind trust.

Which one of the following actions would violate the principle stated above?

AA city council member whose spouse owns ₹75,000 worth of stock in MetroGrocer votes on a zoning change that benefits the company.

BA state senator whose minor child owns ₹1.2 lakh in PharmaNova stock authors a bill that would expand subsidies for the company's new vaccine.

CA transportation minister who owns ₹2 lakh of shares in RailTech places those shares in a blind trust before approving a lucrative contract for RailTech.

DA governor whose personal holdings include ₹90,000 of EnvoPower stock recuses herself from negotiations on a renewable-energy partnership with that firm.

EA finance department official whose spouse sold ₹1.5 lakh of stock in CapitalBank last year oversees the approval of CapitalBank's new branch licenses.

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