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Cyrus Mistry Wife; Who is Rohiqa Chagla?

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Jessica Burns

Updated on January 18, 2026

Cyrus Mistry Wife;

Cyprus has been married to Rohiqa Chagla for over 30 years.

Who is Rohiqa Chagla?

In 1992, Chagla and Mistry tied the knot, and they stayed together until his untimely death.

Directorships at both private and public limited companies were among Rohiqa Chagla’s many achievements in the business world.

Throughout Asia, the Mistry family has built opulent hotels, stadiums, palaces, and factories with the proceeds from their real estate and stock in the Tata Group.

After being named the heir apparent to lead the Tata Group, Cyrus Mistry shot to fame, but his rise to power also sparked one of India’s most high-profile corporate rivalries.

Rohiqa Chagla’s grandfather was the jurist and ex-cabinet minister M.C. Chagla, while her father is the barrister Iqbal Chagla. Her family had taken her husband Mistry’s adversaries, the Tatas, to court. Cyrus Mistry became chairman of Tata Sons in 2012.

His unexpected 2016 departure sparked a dramatic, multi-year legal battle and boardroom struggle between two of India’s most storied business dynasties, the Mistrys and the Tatas.

The sixth chairman of Tata Sons, Mistry resigned in October of 2016. After Ratan Tata’s retirement announcement in December 2012, he became the company’s chairman. N. Chandrasekaran eventually became the Executive Chairman of Tata Sons.

The Tata Group’s decision to remove Cyrus Mistry as executive chairman of Tata Sons was upheld in a 2021 ruling that the Sapoorji Pallonji (SP) Group had asked the Supreme Court to review in May, but the Court declined.

The SP group and the business world have been dealt a devastating blow with Mistry’s untimely passing. At around 3:15 p.m., the tragedy struck. It was in Mistry’s Mercedes that he and his companions made their journey. The superintendent of police in the Palghar district, Balasaheb Patil, has verified the event. The driver of the car and another passenger both suffered injuries. Every single one of the hurt has been taken to a hospital in Gujarat.

This is the second tragic loss for the Mistry family this year; Pallonji Mistry, Mistry’s father, passed away in June.

On Sunday afternoon, National Highway 48 in the Palghar district of Maharashtra claimed the life of Cyrus Mistry, the former head of Tata Sons. Mistry, 54, and two other passengers were on their way from Gujarat to Mumbai.

On the Charoti bridge over the Surya river at approximately 3.15 p.m., a Mercedes lost control, hit a road divider, and crashed into a wall, killing the driver and one other person, Jehangir Pandole, Director at KPMG Global Strategy Group.

When Cyrus Mistry was forced to step down as chairman of Tata Sons, he was involved in a fatal car accident, which you can read about here:
Dr. Anahita Pandole, a prominent gynecologist in Mumbai, was driving when the accident occurred, and she and her husband, Darius, both received critical injuries. The couple is currently in the intensive care unit of a private hospital in Vapi, Gujarat.
The late Jehangir Pandole’s sister-in-law, Dr. Anahita Pandole. Mistry was seated behind her in the Mercedes’s backseat, with Jehangir Pandole next to him. Each man suffered fatal internal wounds that ultimately led to his death.

Two people in the car, including Mistry, were killed instantly.
According to a Palghar police officer stationed in Kasa, “the two deceased seated in the back were not wearing seat belts due to which their airbags did not deploy.” They were pinned between the front and rear seats during the collision.
Friends of the Mistrys for generations have been the Pandoles. Darius Pandole leads the private equity and alternative investment funds at JM Financial as the company’s managing director and chief executive officer. Before Mistry was kicked out of the Tata Group, he served on the board of Tata Global Beverages Limited (TGBL), but he resigned afterward.

Dr. Anahita Pandole is a social justice advocate who challenged illegal hoardings in Mumbai by filing a PIL in the High Court.

Mistry accompanied the three Pandoles as they attended a religious ceremony in Udvada, Gujarat. On Sunday, they’d make the trip back to Mumbai.

The Pandole couple were badly injured, and Police Constable Yogesh Avtar drove them to Rainbow Hospital in Vapi. “Anahita Pandole and Darius Pandole were brought to our hospital in a very bad condition,” said the hospital’s Dr. Tejas Shah. Their blood pressure and oxygen levels were both significantly lower than they had been earlier. Their condition is critical, as they have suffered multiple fractures. But their blood pressure and oxygen saturation have improved. A group of physicians from Mumbai are en route to check on them, we’ve been told.
According to Mumbai authorities, Darius Pandole suffered a double jaw fracture that blocked his airway. His airway has been cleared after a maxillofacial surgeon removed his jaw, and he is currently stable, the source added.
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Sadly, Dr. Anahita Pandole has suffered a broken hip and a collapsed lung. Monday morning, she will be flown to Mumbai, according to reliable sources.

The post mortem examination of Mistry and Jehangir Pandole will take place at the state-run JJ hospital in Mumbai, where their bodies have been stored.

the wreckage of the car in which Cyrus Mistry and others were riding. (ANI)

A crane is being used to move the damaged vehicle from the scene of the accident. (ANI)
At Charoti, about 120 kilometers from Mumbai, there is both an old and a new bridge across the Surya river; Dr. Anahita Pandole had taken the new bridge. Police said she was going too fast for conditions and that she was the only driver involved in the accident.
They had just left Gujarat and were making their way back to the city. Driver Anahita Pandole was making a left-hand pass on another car. The road becomes two lanes instead of three at the Surya river bridge. Balasaheb Patil, the police superintendent of Palghar district, told The Indian Express that “she rammed into the edge of the bridge.”

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