Cyrus Mistry cremated in Mumbai; Ratan Tata’s stepmother attends funeral

​Mumbai, September 6
Cyrus Mistry, the former Tata Sons chairman who was killed in a road accident earlier this week, was cremated in the financial capital on Tuesday.
The funeral at central Mumbai’s Worli crematorium was attended by members of the closely-knit Parsi community, some business leaders and politicians.
Industry doyen Ratan Tata’s stepmother Simone Tata was also in attendance.
Wheelchair-bound Simone Tata, 92, arrived at the crematorium in a special van. Former TCS head S Ramadorai also came for the cremation.
However, no other senior official from the Tata Group – with whom Mistry fought a bitter legal battle till the end – was seen at the funeral.
Madhu Kannan, one of the key executives handpicked by Mistry during his chairmanship of Tata Sons, was present 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, NCP leaders Supriya Sule and Ganesh Naik and former Congress MP Milind Deora were also present at the crematorium.
Mistry’s mortal remains, decorated with white flowers, were brought from the state-run JJ Hospital to the crematorium earlier in the morning and kept for friends and family to offer their prayers.
The last rites were performed in an electric crematorium just before noon.
A family priest performed the ritualistic prayers as per Parsi tradition before the last rites were held at a pre-decided time, according to those who attended the funeral.
A pandal was specially erected for the last rites at the crematorium.
Mistry, 54, who headed the salt-to-software conglomerate Tata Sons from 2012-16 before an unceremonious exit, and his friend Jahangir Pandole, were killed in a road accident in Palghar district of Maharashtra on Sunday afternoon.
He was returning from a visit to Udvada in south Gujarat.
Gynaecologist Anahita Pandole, 55, who was driving the sports utility vehicle, and her husband Darius Pandole, 60, were injured in the accident and are being treated at a local hospital in Mumbai.