The employees at Tata Motors, Jamshedpur, expressed their heartfelt condolences at the untimely demise of their company’s managing director, Karl Slym. All Tata Motors locations across the country observed a two minutes silence as a mark of respect for the departed soul.
At Jamshedpur, the Senior Management Team along with the Union Colleagues observed a two minute silence in front of the General Office at 11:30 am on Monday.
Slym joined Tata Motors in October 2012 and was leading the company's operations in India and international markets including South Korea, Thailand and South Africa.
The British-born executive was in Thailand for a board meeting of the company's subsidiary in the country and was slated to return to India on Sunday.His wife, Sally Slym, was with him in Bangkok. The police suspects that he jumped from the hotel room to commit suicide.