Guwahati: Former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry was cremated on Tuesday in Mumbai after passing away in an automobile accident on Sunday.
According to PTI, the final rites were conducted in an electric cremation in Worli in the heart of Mumbai in accordance with Hindu traditions.
Mistry, 54, and his buddy Jahangir Pandole were killed in a car accident on Sunday afternoon in the nearby Palghar district of Maharashtra. Pandole and Mistry managed the salt-to-software conglomerate Tata Sons from 2012 to 2016 until an abrupt departure.
Mistry was travelling back from a trip to Udvada, the most sacred location for Zoroastrians in south Gujarat.
His mortal remains were brought from the J J Hospital and maintained at the Worli crematorium since Tuesday morning for friends, family, and well-wishers to pay their condolences. His mortal remains were decked with white flowers, the PTI report stated.
Politicians, business executives and members of the Parsi community attended the cremation.
Cyrus Mistry’s elder brother Shapoor Mistry, father-in-law and senior lawyer Iqbal Chagla, industrialists Anil Ambani and Ajit Gulabchand and NCP MP Supriya Sule were present at the crematorium.
Cyrus Mistry and Pandole’s Mercedes crashed into a divider on a bridge over the Surya River in the Palghar district on Sunday.
The car’s 55-year-old gynaecologist driver Anahita Pandole and her 60-year-old husband Darius Pandole suffered injuries in the collision.