Former Tata chairman and billionaire Cyrus Mistry has died Sunday in a car crash with one other person,while two travelers in the vehicle were injured.
Mr Mistry and his companions were travelling in a Mercedes car through the Palghar district of Maharashtra when the accident happened on Sunday afternoon, police said.
The vehicle is said to have hit a divider in the road, while crossing a bridge over a river, and Mr Mistry subsequently died at the crash scene.
Mr Mistry, who was 54, was ousted as Tata chairman in 2016, following criticism of his performance. He was replaced by Ratan Tata – the man who Mr Mistry had himself replaced just four years earlier.
The deputy chief minister of Maharashtra state has ordered a police investigation.
The crash brought into focus the country’s high number of road accidents, with government data showing that these claimed 150,000 lives in 2021 – an average of 18 per hour.
