Afternoon briefing: Huge row after Dalit homes torched in Bihar, and more

At least 80 homes, belonging to families mostly from the Dalit community, were set on fire by unidentified people on Wednesday night in Bihar’s Nawada district, police said. Out of these homes, 21 homes were completely burnt to ashes. A group of at least 100 people surrounded the homes in Krishna Nagar area and set them on fire. According to police, the incident took place around 7:30pm. They said that there was a heated altercation between the alleged assailants and the villagers after which the former opened fire. Dig Deeper
Reacting to the tragic death of a 26-year-old chartered accountant of Ernst & Young (EY), Pune, due to excessive workload, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi wondered whether companies could escape legal scrutiny in the US or Europe for imposing long working hours. Former Union minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rajeev Chandrasekar also reacted to the incident. Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale wrote to the union labour secretary to investigate working conditions at EY. Dig Deeper
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Ernst & Young India chairman Rajiv Memani’s email to staff addressing the death of Anna Sebastian Perayil has been leaked online despite his “do not forward” directive. Anna Sebastian Perayil had joined EY’s audit and assurance team in Pune in March this year. She died four months later, allegedly due to overwhelming work stress. She was only 26. In an explosive letter addressed to Memani, Perayil’s mother Anita Augustine had called out EY for overworking her daughter, adding that nobody from the company bothered to attend her funeral. Dig Deeper