Cyrus Mistry died in a road accident in Maharashtra's Palghar area on Sunday. The accident took place when he was returning from a Parsi religious function.
A south Mumbai boy, the Mistry family scion was already heading companies in the Shapoorji Pallonji Group - the family business - when he was appointed to succeed Ratan Tata as the head of the over USD 100 billion, salt-to-software Tata group in 2012.