Tata Sons apologises after security guards beat up media

Tata Sons on Friday apologised to media for the scuffle that broke out at Bombay House earlier in the day.

We deeply regret about the incident during the entry of certain board directors today & apologize to press & their families: Tata sons

— ANI (@ANI_news) November 4, 2016

Photo journalists trying to click pictures of ousted Tata Sons Chairman Cyrus Mistry were beaten up by security personnel, leading to an injury to one of them.

When Mistry, ​Chairman of Indian Hotels Company Ltd, arrived for a board meeting of Tata group firm IHCL at the Tata group headquarters in Mumbai, photographers went beyond the cordoned off area to click his pictures.

In a bid to control the situation, the security personnel roughed up the photographers, injuring one and damaging his equipment, in the process. Cameras belonging to lens men of two other publications were also damaged. Later on the situation was brought under control with the intervention of police from Mata Ramabai Police station. Four security guards and three photographers were taken for medical check up.

Digging in his heels after being ousted as Chairman of Tata Sons, Mistry plans to continue in his current role at Tata group firms, including Tata Steel, TCS and Tata Motors, where he is Chairman. Sources close to Mistry have said he has no plans to quit as Chairman of these firms. "He will discharge his fiduciary duty as required by law in all his positions in the Tata group," a source close to Mistry had said.

With agency inputs