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Who is Subjective and Whom is objective.
"To whom shall i give it?" is another form of "Whom shall I give it to?". Here the subject is "I" and a preposition "to" is followed by the objective. So the use of "Whom" in this sentence is right and not "who".
Similarly, "Who shall i take with me?" is wrong.
Who, as a subject, is correct in questions as found below:
"Who goes home?"
"Who did it?"
When "Who" is used as a simple relative pronoun, it is immaterial whether its governing noun or pronoun is the subject or object. Then the sentences can be:
"The lady who is good-looking is away"
"I saw the guy who did this!"
However, Who would be changed to whom in the following sentence.
"The lady whom you are talking about is away"
The man whom the police arrested..." is right here because, Police is the subject in this sentence.
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