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Former Tata Sons Chairman Cyrus Mistry dies in car crash

Cyrus Mistry (pictured) was little known in business circles at the time of his appointment to Tata Sons [File: Vivek Prakash/ Reuters]

Cyrus Mistry, the 54-year-old former chairman of Indian conglomerate Tata Sons, has died in a road accident near the financial capital Mumbai, Indian police said.

Mistry was removed as chairman of Tata Sons, the holding company of the $300bn salt-to-software Tata conglomerate, in a boardroom coup in 2016, sparking a long, drawn-out legal tussle in which India’s top court eventually ruled in Tata Group’s favour.

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