Mistry in 2016 was sacked from his job at the helm of Tata Sons, the holding company for the Tata Group, after he fell out with group patriarch Ratan Tata over corporate governance issues at Tata group companies.

The two sides have since been embroiled in a legal battle.

(Reporting by Aditi Shah and Suchitra Mohanty; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)