  ATLAS and CMS have observed a flavor violating decay of the Higgs to muon and
tau. The fact that flavour violating couplings of the Higgs boson are exactly
zero in the Standard Model suggests the mixing of the Higgs with another scalar
with flavour violating couplings. We use the flavon field from the
Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism, responsible for generating the lepton Yukawa
matrices, for this purpose. The parameter space is constrained from
experimental bounds on charged lepton flavor violation in other processes,
however, we show that a substantial region of parameter space survives these
bounds while producing a large enough $Br(h \to\mu\tau)$.
