Hyderabad: An angry doctor opened fire at his business partner inside a parked car at Himayatnagar following a quarrel over a partnership issue involving the Laurel Hospital at Madhapur that they had started on January 1.
Dr Shashi Kumar fired from point blank range, but the bullet nicked his partner Dr Uday Kumar’s left ear, causing an injury. Another partner, Dr Sai Kumar, who was inside the car, escaped without injuries.
The three doctors, who are partners at Laurel Hospital in Madhapur, had been working on the partnership for three years.
Police looks for doctor who shot at his partner
Soon after shooting his partner, Dr Uday Kumar, Dr Shashi Kumar, a resident of Sainikpuri, fled the area. Police has formed special teams to apprehend him. Cops suspect that he escaped in his car that was parked a few kilometres from the area. Dr Uday Kumar was rushed to Apollo Hospitals, Hyderguda, for treatment.
Police officials inspect the car in which Dr Shashi Kumar of Laurel Hospital, Madhapur, shot and wounded partner Dr Uday Kumar on Monday in Himayathnagar. (Photo: DC)
Deputy commissioner of police V.B. Kamalasan Reddy said that Dr Shashi Kumar used a .32 mm pistol for which he had a licence. Police suspects that the intention of the accused was to kill his two partners, but he could not pull it off. Narayanguda police has booked a case against Dr Shashi Kumar for attempt to murder.
The firing occurred inside the victim’s Volkswagen car at 4.30 pm on Street No. 6 in Himayatnagar. Dr Kumar had invited the partners for a meeting in the evening. They went to a restaurant but did not get a place to sit. They then parked at the street side to talk. “Dr Uday Kumar was driving and Dr Sai Kumar was sitting in the front seat. The accused, who was sitting in the back seat, got angry during the discussion and started a quarrel. He suddenly took out the pistol and fired at the victim,” said a police official from Narayanguda.
Dr Shashi Kumar was angry because he felt that he was being sidelined in the business by his two partners and wanted his investment to be returned. “Dr Shashi Kumar invested up to Rs 75 lakh and the other two partners had invested up to Rs 3 crore. Dr Uday Kumar and Dr Sai Kumar became managing director and CEO of the new 100-bed hospital. Dr Shashi Kumar was kept as a director among several other NRIs who had also invested in the hospital. He had earlier complained that he was not being given due importance when it came to management matters,” he said.
