Tata vs Mistry: NCLAT restores Cyrus Mistry as chairman of Tata Sons

While restoring Mistry to the position, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal held that the appointment of N Chandrasekaran as executive chairman was illegal

More than three years after the dramatic boardroom sacking of Cyrus Mistry, an appeals court —  National Company Law Appellate Tribunal — on Wednesday reinstated him as the executive chairman of the Tata group. The 172-page order, while upholding Mistry’s charges that he was ousted without due process, said the action taken by Ratan Tata and others against the former Tata Sons chairman was oppressive and illegal. 

The two-judge Bench headed by Justice S J Mukhopadhyaya declared the October 2016 resolution passed by the Tata Sons board to remove Mistry, a scion of Shapoorji Pallonji family, from his post and