Sept. 20: The Tatas have leaned on the impostor - and he has keeled over.

Today, Pawan Jhawar, a 30-year-old Howrah-based businessman who had registered an entity named Tata Sons with the UK corporate registry, changed its name to Jhawar Sons Limited.

The Telegraph had reported on Sunday how Jhawar had come out of the blue and registered an entity that shared its name with the holding company of the $103-billion Tata group.

The timing is significant since the name has been changed just a day before shareholders of Tata Sons - this time the real McCoy - vote on a proposal to convert the public limited company into a private limited entity.

The change in status of Tata Sons will severely limit the influence and options of the Shapoorji Pallonji family that has an 18.37 per cent stake in the company.

Last year, Cyrus Mistry, the younger scion of the Pallonji family, was forced to step down as chairman of the Tata group after a spat with Ratan Tata and the Tata Trusts which control over 60 per cent in the Tata group's holding company.

After the news of Jhawar's audacious move broke, the Tatas had vowed to take legal action against Jhawar for violating the group's intellectual property rights by not only using the Tata brand name but also having the temerity to name the entity after the group's holding company.

In a short three-page filing, Jhawar's "Tata" entity said "a special resolution to change the name of the company was agreed and passed by the members on the 18th September 2017. That the name of the company be changed to Jhawar Sons Limited."

The company has only one shareholder and one director - Pawan Jhawar - and it, therefore, probably did not take long to arrive at the decision.

However, one problem lingers. The link with the Tata Sons' name has not been completely scrubbed out. The UK registry describes the previous name of Jhawar Sons Limited as Tata Sons and gives its period of existence from 7th August 2017 to 19th September 2017.

This might be a legal formality but it could pose problems if the real Tata Sons decides to register with the UK registry sometime later.

After all, there are at least half a dozen legitimate Tata group companies registered with Companies House, the UK companies registrar.

A fair number of companies also sport the Tata tagline but have absolutely no links whatsoever with Bombay House, the group's headquarters in Mumbai.

These include Tata's Taco Truck (run by Joe Simpson, an Englishman, and Davide Simonnetti, an Italian), Tata Establishment Ltd (run by Emmanuel Nwa Fonghwa, a Cameroonian), Tata Cargo Ltd (which counts Parminder Kaur of Britain as its sole director), Tata Construction & Maintenance Ltd (managed by Alexandru Szoverfi, a Romanian) and Tata Builders Ltd (formed by Kamila Tata, an Albanian).

Jhawar isn't the first Calcuttan who has formed a Tata-named entity in the UK. That honour should go to Manojit Mundhara.

The original name of Mundhara's company was Tax Professionals (UK) Ltd. It morphed into Tata (UK) Ltd in 2014, before being dissolved on February 9, 2016.

Mundhara has an eponymous company registered in Howrah: Manoj Mundhara Enterprises Ltd. Both Mundhara and Jhawar are from Howrah.

Here is where it gets really intriguing: Mundhara's dissolved company and Jhawar Sons Ltd (formerly Tata Sons Limited) share the same address: Office 4, 219 Kensington High Street, Kensington, London.