“Who was Cyrus Mistry?”

Cyrus Pallonji  Mistry or Cyrus Mistry(54) was an Indian-born Irish businessman born on 4 July 1968 and died on 4 September 2022. He was the former 6th Chairperson of the Tata Sons group – an Indian business conglomerate from 2012 to 2016. He was only the second after Nowroji Saklatwala not to bear the surname Tata.

According to the facts and figures, the Mistry family was one of the largest single stakeholders in Tata Sons after the Tata Trusts Charities which holds 66% of the company. There's another connection between the Mistry family and the Tata's is Cyrus Mistry's sister Aloo has been married to Ratan Tata's half-brother Noel Tata. He graduated in civil engineering from the Imperial College of London in 1990 and also had an MSc in management from the London business school in 1997. Mistry succeeded his father on the board of Tata Sons and was made the managing director of the family-run Shapoorji Pallonji construction and infrastructure businesses in 2004. At that time he was only 26. Mistry succeeded and his father was on the board of Tata Sons and was made the managing director of the father-run ShapoorjI Pallonji construction and infrastructure businesses in 2004. At that time he was only 26.

In 2012, he was appointed as the chairperson designate of Tata Sons and Ratan Tata and Mistry used to have good relations until 2016. But in October 2016, he was dethroned or removed from Tata Sons due to a major trust deficit and it was not acceptable for the Tata group to bear such a deficit from its biggest stakeholder. There were certain disagreements between him and the Tata Sons board members over the functioning of the company and certain decisions taken by Cyrus Mistry to which he did not agree. In October 2016, Mistry along with his two firms filed a case of oppression and mismanagement against Tata Sons and 20 others including Ratan Tata. And after a long legal tussle between the two business tycoons, India's topmost court eventually ruled in Tata Group's favour.

“Why and how did Cyrus Mistry die?'

Former chairperson of Tata, Cyrus Mistry died in a road accident on Sunday, 4 September 2022 at 3:15 pm while coming from Gujarat's Udwada to Mumbai in a silver Mercedes car. He was 135km away from Mumbai where the accident happened in the Charoti area of Palgarh. The accident took place on a bridge over the Surya River, due to over speeding the car lost its control and got hit by the road divider.

At the time of the accident, there were 3 more persons with Cyrus Mistry and one of them also lost his life in this tragedy. There was Darius Pandole, who was a board member of Tata Sons and strongly opposed the decision of dethroning Mistry from the group but due to non-acceptance of his advice, he gave his resignation from Tata Sons along with the removal of Mistry. And there was Jehangir Pandole who was the brother of Darius Pandole but unfortunately died in this road accident and Anahita Pandole. She is the wife of Darius Pandole and a well-known gynaecologist in Mumbai, also she was the one who was driving the car when the accident happened.

“It seems like an accident”, told Superintendent of Palghar District- Balasaheb Patil due to investigating and exploring the site where the accident happened as this accident is purely a case of overspeeding and losing control over the vehicle and trying to overtake another vehicle from the wrong side to which two people got died and the other two- Darius Pandole and Anahita Pandole were injured and taken to a private hospital in Gujarat's Vapi for medical assistance. On the next day, i.e. on Monday, 5 September 2022 – they were shifted to Mumbai hospital for further treatment.

According to officials, all of them were not wearing seat belts at the time of the accident and this proves that it was all their fault for non-accepting traffic safety rules. This is a serious case of carelessness, ignorance and negligence by the people who were present there as we all know that wearing seat belts while driving a car is a must for drivers as well as for the passengers also to keep them safe and secure. After this incident, people were trying more to aware people of the importance of following traffic safety rules, how much we need to obey these kinds of rules to prevent the loss of lives and to secure the lives of their loved ones from getting destroyed as these kinds of mishaps are not only hazardous for the person who is injured but it directly involves the related family also into this tragedy by victimising them and making them more vulnerable. So in order to avoid this kind of incidents, one should strictly obey the basic traffic safety rules implemented in one's area and should also try to convince other people to follow the same.