Highlights! Cyrus Mistry dies in car crash; PM, VP, CMs, Ministers, Businessmen express shock
Mistry was travelling from Ahmedabad to Mumbai in a Mercedes car, he said.
Former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry was on Sunday killed in a road accident after his car hit a divider in Maharashtra's Palghar district neighbouring Mumbai, a police official said.
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, the police official said.
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.
Cyrus Pallonji Mistry (4 July 1968 - 4 September 2022) was an Irish businessman of Indian origin. He was the chairman of Tata Group, an Indian business conglomerate, from 2012 to 2016. He was the sixth chairman of the group, and only the second (after Nowroji Saklatwala) to not bear the surname Tata.
In mid-2012, he was chosen by a selection panel to head the Tata Group and took charge in December of the same year.
Girish Kuber, the editor of Marathi daily Loksatta and author of the book 'Tatayan' based on the Tata Group, said Mistry had a vision for industrial growth and was well known for his command of statistical data. "The Mistry family had a maximum holding in the Tata Group, he said.
Mistry had good intentions to reorganise the Tata Group's finances and its structure. In Mistry's death, we have lost a promising personality from the industry, Kuber said.
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Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran condoles death of Cyrus Mistry
"I am deeply saddened by the sudden and untimely demise of Mr Cyrus Mistry. He had a passion for life and it is really tragic that he passed away at such a young age," Chandrasekaran said in a statement.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also expressed shocked on the news of Cyrus Mistry's demise.
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on demise of Cyrus Mistry
Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren is also shocked to hear the untimely death of Cyrus Mistry.
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on the demise of Cyrus Mistry
Maha Deputy CM Fadnavis asks police to conduct detailed probe into Cyrus Mistry's fatal accident
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday said he has asked the state police to conduct a detailed investigation into the accident in which former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry was killed.
Fadnavis said he was shocked and deeply pained to know about the demise of Mistry (54) in the unfortunate accident near Palghar adjoining Mumbai.
"Spoke to DGP and instructed for detailed investigations," tweeted Fadnavis, who is also the state home minister.
"My deepest condolences to his family, friends and colleagues," he said.
Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra said hard to digest the news of Cyrus Mistry's demise.
What Police Officials say?
The police officer said the injured occupants of the car- Anayta Pandol, who was driving the car, and Daryus Pandol- have been shifted to a private hospital in Vapi in Gujarat for treatment. Palghar Police officer Sachin Navadkar said the local police are carrying out a further investigation.
Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan shocked too by the untimely demise of Cyrus Mistry
Tripura CM Manik Saha was anguished and shocked by the demise of Cyrus Mistry.
Nationalist Congress Party Chief Sharad Pawar also expressed shock and was deeply saddened by the demise of Cyrus Mistry.
Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis expressed deep shock and pain on the demise of Cyrus Mistry
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the demise of Cyrus Mistry:
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is extremely shocked by the news of Cyrus Mistry's death
Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri is also deeply saddened by the unfortunate demise of Cyrus Mistry
Watch video of crashed car in which Cyrus Mistry was travelling to Mumbai
Telangana Minister and TRS working president K T Rama Rao totally shocked by the demise of Cyrus Mistry
Nationalist Congress Party leader and MP from Baramati Supriya Sule is devastated and shocked on the news of Cyrus Mistry death.
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal anguished and shocked on death on Cyrus Mistry
Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari deeply saddened on death on Cyrus Mistry
RPG Enterprises Chairman Harsh Goenka also expresses grief on demise of Cyrus Mistry
Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde expresses shock on demise of Cyrus Mistry
What authorities said:
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.
Former Chairman of Tata Sons Cyrus Mistry died in a car crash at around 3pm in Maharashtra's Palghar area - Check Images
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