Veena who is the sister-in-law of Ashok, is the daughter-in-law of Kalyani.…
2025
Veena who is the sister-in-law of Ashok, is the daughter-in-law of Kalyani. Dheeraj is the father of Sudeep who is the only brother of Ashok. How Kalyani is related to Ashok?
- A.
Mother
- B.
Sister
- C.
Aunt
- D.
None of these
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Correct answer: A
In family-relation puzzles, a statement like ‘X is the daughter-in-law of Y’ fixes Y as a parent of X's husband, and an ‘only brother’ statement confirms two people share the same parents.
Sudeep is stated to be the only brother of Ashok, so Sudeep and Ashok share the same parents.
Veena is the sister-in-law of Ashok; since Sudeep is Ashok's only brother, Veena must be Sudeep's wife, because a brother's wife is a sister-in-law.
Veena is also the daughter-in-law of Kalyani, which means Kalyani is the mother of Veena's husband, i.e., Kalyani is Sudeep's mother.
Since Sudeep and Ashok share the same parents, Kalyani, Sudeep's mother, is also Ashok's mother.
Cross-check: this is consistent with Dheeraj being named as Sudeep's father — Dheeraj and Kalyani are the parents of Sudeep and Ashok, with Kalyani filling the mother's role.
Kalyani is Ashok's mother.