A. Bring the matter to the knowledge of your immediate superior officer and do as be verbally directs.
B. Company to the request of the senior officer. Who approached you and recommend the name of his candidate in the top two despite knowing that he is not among the best two.
C. Examine the profile of all ten candidates and take decision on merits even. If it means that the candidate Y is eventually selected.
Feedback Selecting option.(A)would harm your relationship with the senior official while option.(B) is complete negation of ethics and morality of an officer. Selecting option(D) is also not ethics and so in this case the best option is to examine the profile of all the candidates and to take decision on the basis of merit. Thus the correct answer is option (C).
D. See to it that the candidates Y is not selected at all by placing him down in the preference