Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella performed his father B N Yugandhar's last rites in the city on Sunday.
Nadella, who reached the city late Saturday night, lit the funeral pyre at Mahaprastanam in Jubilee Hills.
Yugandhar, a retired IAS officer, died on Friday after a brief illness. He was 80.
Nadella is the only child of Yugandhar.
Other relatives and friends too bid tearful adieu to the former bureaucrat, who served in the Prime Minister's Office and in the Planning Commission. Telangana DGP M Mahender Reddy, senior IAS officer Somesh Kumar and some retired IAS officials were among those who attended the last rites.
An IAS officer of the 1962 batch, Yugandhar held many key positions both in undivided Andhra Pradesh and at the Centre. He was instrumental in the implementation of many schemes designed for the poor and marginalized sections of the society, and was known for his clean record. He was the top bureaucrat in the Rural Development Ministry when P V Narasimha Rao was the Prime Minister.