Cyrus Mistry accident: Police file case against Anahita Pandole who drove car in which Mistry was travelling

The Kasa police on Saturday filed a case against Anahita Pandole, who was driving the vehicle, which met with an accident and led to the demise of former Tata Sons Chairman Cyrus Mistry.

Pandole has been booked under various sections of IPC including those for rash and negligent driving. Meanwhile, Palghar SP Balasaheb Patil told news agency ANI that the case has been filed under section 304(A), 279, 336, 338 against Pandole, who was driving during accident. Sections invoked against Pandole are bailable.





The case has been filed after police recorded Anahita Pandole's husband Darius Pandole's statement, said Balasaheb Patil.

The case registered is also based on the report, which was submitted by Mercedes Benz India and stated that the vehicle was speeding at the time of the crash. The car was being driven at a speed of 100 kmp and it was also driving in the wrong lane, the report highlighted.

According to Palghar police, Anahita Pandole is still in the ICU, undergoing treatment.

Cyrus Mistry, former Chairman of Tata Sons, died in a road accident on September 4th this year.

Mistry and his friend Jahangir Pandole had received multiple injuries and "blunt thorax trauma" in the car accident in which they were killed almost instantly, a medical officer had said. The injuries also included vein ruptures causing internal bleeding, he said.

Mistry (54) and Pandole were on way to Mumbai from Gujarat along with two other persons when their car hit a divider on a bridge over the Surya river in the neighbouring Palghar district of Maharashtra, around 100 km from here, on Sunday afternoon.

Mistry and Pandole, who were in the back seats, were killed.

Gynaecologist Anahita Pandole (55), who was driving the car, and her husband Darius Pandole (60), who was sitting in the front seat, survived with injuries.

Anahita’s husband heads the Private Equity of JM Financial as managing director and CEO. Anahita is a top gynaecologist at Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital. Darius and Anahita have been admitted to the intensive care unit of Vapi’s Rainbow Hospital. According to news reports, both sustained multiple fractures but were in taking condition after the accident.