India / Cyrus mistry last rites in mumbai ratan tata mother was presen

New Delhi : Former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry was cremated in Mumbai on Tuesday. Mistry died in a car accident on Sunday. He was 54 years old. Members of the Parsi community, some business leaders and political leaders attended the last rites at the Worli crematorium in central Mumbai.

Simon Tata, step-mother of veteran industrialist Ratan Tata, also attended the funeral. Simone (92) reached the crematorium in a special van in a wheelchair. Former head of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) S. Ramdurai also reached the crematorium. However, no other senior Tata group official was present at the funeral. Mistry had to fight a bitter legal battle with the Tata group till the end.

Madhu Kannan, one of the key officials selected by Mistry as the chairman of Tata Sons, was seen at the funeral. Cyrus Mistry's elder brother Shapoor Mistry, father-in-law and senior lawyer Iqbal Chagla, industrialists Anil Ambani, Ajit Gulabchand, Deepak Parekh and Vishal Kampani, entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala, architect Hafeez Contractor, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders Supriya Sule and Ganesh Naik and Former Congress MP Milind Deora was present at the crematorium.

Mistry's body was brought from JJ Hospital in a vehicle decorated with white flowers and kept at the Worli crematorium since Tuesday morning so that friends and relatives could pay their respects. Mistry was cremated at an electric crematorium just before noon. According to those who attended, the family priest performed the puja according to the Zoroastrian tradition at a predetermined time before the last rites.

It is worth mentioning that Mistry and his friend Jehangir Pandole were killed in a road accident in Palghar district of Maharashtra on Sunday afternoon. They were returning from Udvada in south Gujarat, which is the holiest place for the Zoroastrians.