Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.Farhan said to…

The correct answer is Option (1) → Farhan requested the bus conductor to tell him when they reached Lonavala.

Changing a polite request into indirect speech:

Change	Direct	Indirect	Why
Reporting verb	said to the bus conductor	requested the bus conductor	“Would you please ...?” is a polite request, not a real question. So “said to” becomes “requested”.
To + verb	Would you please tell	to tell	A request is reported with “to” + verb. “Would you”, “please” and the “?” are dropped.
Pronoun change	me, we	him, they	Farhan is the speaker, so “me” becomes “him”. “We” means Farhan and the others on the bus, so it becomes “they”.
Tense change	reach	reached	After the past “said”, the simple present “reach” becomes the simple past “reached”. The simple present is formed with the base form (V1), or V1 + s / es with he, she, it. The simple past is formed with the past form of the verb (V2).
Full sentence	Farhan said to the bus conductor, “Would you please tell me when we reach Lonavala?”	Farhan requested the bus conductor to tell him when they reached Lonavala.

“Could you please ...?” and “Will you kindly ...?” are reported in the same way. Example: Isha said to her father, “Could you please drop me at school?” → Isha requested her father to drop her at school.

Why the Other Options are Incorrect?

Option 2: Farhan requested the bus conductor if he would tell him when they reached Lonavala. — Incorrect. “Requested” is not followed by “if”. It takes a person and “to” + verb: “requested the bus conductor to tell”.

Option 3: Farhan requested to the bus conductor to tell him when they reached Lonavala. — Incorrect. “Requested” takes the person straight after it. “Requested to the bus conductor” is wrong.

Option 4: Farhan requested the bus conductor to tell me when they reached Lonavala. — Incorrect. “Me” is kept from the spoken words. Farhan is the speaker, so it becomes “him”.