Directions: The following passage has several numbered blanks with suggestions for the same given after the passage. Select the proper option. Faced with the ..(i).. patronage of ..(ii).. and routine transfers of upright officials, the city police has ..(iii).. to a ..(iv).. of encounters to ..(v).. underworld elements. The rising numbers of deaths in this fashion suggests a knee-jerk response which makes nonsense of the rule of law. Yet the minister in charge of home portfolio has..(vi).. that encounters will continue to be ..(vii).. upon to ..(viii).. lawlessness. It is a different matter that he has been silent about his own party having given tickets to family members of drug ..(ix).. during elections. ..(x).., the Mumbai High Court, while admitting a writ petition on such encounters, has ..(xi).. city police commissioner to file an affidavit.

Read the given passage and fill the blank (i).