Former member of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Sadanand alias Pappu Lad (51) committed suicide at a temple in south Mumbai's Grant Road locality on Wednesday, the police said.
Pappu Lad, who was also a film producer, was found to have hanged himself inside the Landancha Ganpati temple on MS Ali Road on Wednesday morning, a police official said.
The suicide note found on the spot said that he was ending life as he was fed up with harassment by a builder.
A case under IPC section 306 (abetment of suicide) was registered on the basis of a complaint lodged by Lad's son Ankur Lad and further probe was on, the official added.
Mr Lad had produced Marathi films under the banner of LG Production.
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