NE BUSINESS BUREAU
MUMBAI, SEP 4
Former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry on Sunday killed in a road accident after his car hit a divider in Maharashtra’s Palghar district neighbouring Mumbai, a senior police officer said. He was 54. Mistry was travelling from Ahmedabad to Mumbai in a Mercedes car, he said.
“The accident took place around 3.15 pm, when Mistry was travelling to Mumbai from Ahmedabad. The accident took place on a bridge over the Surya river. It seems an accident,” said Palghar district superintendent of police, Balasaheb Patil.
The other two persons travelling with him, including the car driver, were injured. All the injured persons have been shifted to a hospital in Gujarat, he said.
More details will be obtained from them, the SP added.
A Kasa police station officer said the accident occurred at Charoti Naka on the Surya river bridge under the Kasa police station limits.
The body of Mistry has been shifted to the Kasa Rural Hospital for postmortem.
“Untimely demise of Cyrus Mistry shocking; he was promising business leader who believed in India’s economic prowess,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted.
He said Mistry’s passing away was a big loss to the world of commerce and industry.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MP Supriya Sule said Mistry was like a brother to her. “His death is shocking for me. I have seen his elevation as the Tata Sons head as well as the subsequent turbulence. He and his wife had gone through a lot of struggle in the last four years. I still cannot believe that he has passed away,” she said.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said Mistry was not just a successful industrialist, but a young and visionary entrepreneur as the business world looked up to him with hope.
“His death is a loss not just for the Mistry family, but for the entire business world,” the CM said.
