Sudden firing in a car created panic in the Himayatnagar area in the heart of Hyderabad on Monday.
On hearing bullet fire, locals ran helter-skelter. Police reached the spot and shifted the injured doctor to the Hyderguda Apollo Hospital.
According to the police, three doctors were co-founders and directors of Laurel Hospital, Madhapur. They indulged in a verbal argument in a Volkswagen Passat in a bylane of Himayatnagar about the financial affairs of the hospital. One of the doctors, Shashi Kumar, then fired using his licensed revolver, at Uday Kumar. The bullet went into the latter's head from beside the ear and emerged from the mouth, but he miraculously survived. Shashi Kumar fled from there afetr the shooting, and did the third doctor Sai Kumar (who was basically freaked out).
Shashi Kumar is absconding, while Sai Kumar surfaced at the hospital after some time and recounted the incidents to the police. Apparently Shashi Kumar wanted out since the hospital was not doing too well, and that led to an altercation. Uday Kumar's condition is said to be critical, though he is able to speak.