Differences among three doctors over their partnership in a hospital inaugurated on New Year Day culminated in a gory end. While one of them was injured in firing, the other after allegedly opening fire with his own revolver committed suicide.
A day after Uday Kumar was left injured in an alleged firing by partner Shashi Kumar, police found the body of the latter in a farmhouse on the city outskirts with a suicide note. Shashi Kumar, whom the police was searching in connection with the firing incident, shot himself with his revolver fearing that Uday Kumar might have died.
Before taking his own life, Shashi Kumar called his wife and told her that he was committing suicide as he was cheated by his friends Uday Kumar and Sai Kumar. He also alleged that he was facing threats from them.
As he switched off his phone, his wife alerted police who traced him in a farmhouse at Nakkalapally village under Moinabad mandal outside Hyderabad. By the time he could be reached, Kumar had shot himself.
In the suicide note Sashi Kumar said that the two other two partners had cheated him and were threatening him. He denied his involvement in Monday’s firing incident and said that he was ending his life as he was afraid that Uday Kumar might have died.
Meanwhile Shashi Kumar’s wife Kanti in a letter to media alleged that Uday and Sai Kumar had murdered her husband.
General surgeon Shashi Kumar, Uday Kumar and Sai Kumar had entered into a partnership to set up a `15 crore project laurel Hospital in Madhapur area of Hyderabad. When the project got delayed and funds ran out, they raised loans from NRIs and the hospital was inaugurated on January 1, 2016.