Ali is an engineer working in the quality control department at an electronic chip plant. Ali's subordinate generally identifies defective production rate in manufactured chips at a rate of 1 in 200. The general industry practice is for defective chips to be repaired or destroyed. Ahmad who is Ali's superior, recently announced that defective chips are to be destroyed because it is more expensive to repair a defective chip than it is to make a new chip. Ali proceeds on the basis of Ahmads instructions. A few months later, Ahmad informed Ali that his quality control staff was rejecting too many chips, which gave impact on overall plant output and ultimately company profitability. Ahmad advised Alis staff to allow a higher percentage of chips to pass through quality control. Ahmad noted that in the end, these issues can be best handled under the company's warranty policy under which the company agrees to replace defective chips based upon customer complaints. However, Ali objected to this practice and refused to go along, and as a result he was transferred to another department and replaced with incompetent new staff, Abu. Abu was a person who followed all Ahmads instruction without considering rules, regulations and specification. If you are under Ali's situation, develop an argument report within 1000 - 1500 words on his ethical obligation under the circumstances and justify your answer in terms of engineering ethics and all relevant rules and regulation under Engineers Act to support your argument together with statistical data.

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