An Ernst & Young (EY) office in western India, which employed a 26-year-old who allegedly died after facing a high workload, has operated since 2007 without a state permit which regulates work hours,

A Maharashtra labour department official on Monday inspected the office of Ernst & Young (EY) here on the directions of the Central government over the death of a woman chartered accountant. Anna Sebastian Perayil (26) allegedly died due to work stress four months into joining the firm in Pune.

EY faces scrutiny over the death of a 26-year-old charter accountant, which has triggered a social media storm and pushed the government to initiate a probe into allegations of a "backbreaking" workload.

Indian authorities inspected consulting firm Ernst & Young's (EY) Pune office and interviewed executives in the western city on Monday, a state official said, amid an investigation into an associate worker's death,