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Sunil, a young civil servant reputed for competence, integrity, dedication and relentlessness, is posted in a tribal-dominated district notorious for illegal sand mining — river-belt sand excavated, trucked and black-marketed with support of local functionaries and tribal musclemen bribing poor tribals and ruling them by fear; some of his own office employees are hand-in-glove with the mafia. Sunil raids their illegal operations; the rattled mafia counter-attacks — his wife and old mother stalked and surveilled, a muscleman threatening him in office to stop raids or meet the fate of a predecessor killed ten years ago. (a) Identify Sunil's options. (b) Critically evaluate each. (c) Which is most appropriate and why?