Indian salt-to-steel conglomerate Tata upped the ante in their bitter dispute with ousted former chairman Cyrus Mistry on Tuesday, saying they were suing him for breach of confidentiality.

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Tata Sons, the holding company of India`s sprawling $103 billion Tata Group, accused Mistry in a legal notice sent to his lawyers of causing "irreparable harm and damage" to the company by making public sensitive documents, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.

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In the latest twist in an increasingly acrimonious battle between Mistry and India`s most famous family conglomerate, Tata said its ex-chief had acted recklessly in providing financial information and minutes from board meetings to a companies dispute hearing last week.

"By passing on confidential and sensitive information accessed by you in your capacity as a director of Tata Sons to companies owned and controlled by your family... you have acted in complete violation of your confidentiality undertaking to Tata Sons, your fiduciary duties towards Tata Sons and your obligations under the Tata Code of Conduct," read the legal notice, according to PTI.

"Such reckless failure on your part... has caused irreparable harm and damage to Tata Sons and Tata Group," it added.

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