MUMBAI—Cyrus Mistry, the 54-year-old former chairman of Indian conglomerate Tata Sons, died in a road accident near financial capital Mumbai on Sunday, Indian police said.
Mistry was ousted as chairman of Tata Sons, the holding company of the $300-billion salt-to-software Tata conglomerate, in a boardroom coup in 2016, sparking a long-drawn-out legal tussle on which India’s top court eventually ruled in Tata Group’s favor.
The accident took place in Palghar, located about 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Mumbai, on Sunday afternoon. Mistry was traveling to Mumbai from Gujarat with three others, B. Patil, the top police official in Palghar district, said….