Tata Sons former chairman Cyrus Mistry was killed on Sunday in a road accident in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, 135 km from Mumbai, on Sunday. Police have confirmed the shocking incident. was travelling from Ahmedabad to Mumbai in a Mercedes car when the accident happened at around 3.15 pm on the Surya River Charoti bridge. He was 54 years of age. Mistry is survived by his wife and two sons.
Mistry’s car hit a divider on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway. Four people were present in the car; two died on spot and two were moved to hospital. The injured, identified at Anahita Pandey (a senior doctor at Breach Candy Hospital) and Darius Pandole (managing director and CEO of JM Financial Private Equity), have been rushed to the Rambo hospital in Vapi, Gujarat.
According to Palghar Superintendent of Police Balasaheb Patil, Anahita Pandole was at the wheel when the accident took place.
The body of Mistry has been shifted to the Kasa Rural Hospital for postmortem. Another person who has also died was named Jahangir Dinsha Pandole.