Former Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) member Sadanand Lad, 55, committed suicide at Grant Road on Wednesday morning. Sadanand alias Pappu Lad was the founder of the popular Laadacha Ganpati at Grant Road and once a close associate of NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal. Lad was found hanging in a room above the Ganpati temple that he had founded.

In a suicide note, Lad, also a film-maker, blamed a construction group owner and another individual for the act, both of whom have been booked by DB Marg Police for abetment of suicide.