F is related to ITC in the same way as T is related to HCL, based on the given arrangement. Who amongst the following is D related to following the same pattern?

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1. Setup: Two rows of 5 each. Row-1 (top) has B, C, D, E, F facing south (so their left is our right). Row-2 (bottom) has R, S, T, U, V facing north (their left is our left).

2. From “Three people sit between R and the person from Apple” the two must occupy the two ends of row-2. So Apple is at one end and R at the opposite end.

3. The one who faces Apple is therefore at the corresponding end of row-1. The person from Reliance is an immediate neighbour of that end person in row-1. (So Reliance is the neighbour of the row-1 end that faces Apple.)

4. “V sits to the immediate left of the one who faces the person from Reliance.” Since row-2 faces north (their left = our left), V sits immediately to the left (our left) of the person opposite Reliance. This places V next to the person who faces Reliance.

5. Using “Only one person sits between V and T” fixes T at the middle column (column 3) when V is placed at column 1 (an end). Thus T is at column 3 of row-2.

6. The person who faces T is therefore the row-1 occupant of column 3. The clue “The person from Bata sits second to the right of the one who faces T” refers to the row-1 person who faces T. For a row-1 person facing south, “second to the right” means two positions to our left (i.e. column index minus 2). So the person two places to the left of the row-1 occupant opposite T is the person from Bata.

7. With the placements forced by the above conditions (Apple and R at ends of row-2, V at one end, T at column 3), the row-1 ordering works out so that D occupies the seat which is exactly two places to the left of the person who faces T. Therefore D is the person from Bata.

8. Thus, following the given relation pattern (as in the question statement), D is related to Bata.

FINAL_ANSWER: d

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