Vikram Goud Case Cracked, To Be Held After Discharge

Hyderabad City Police Commissioner M Mahendar Reddy today confirmed that Youth Congress leader and former minister M Mukesh Goud's son Vikram Goud had stage-managed the firing incident at his Film Nagar residence on Friday morning to gain public sympathy for the 2019 elections and to bring pressure upon his creditors.

"The shooting incident was a conspiracy hatched by Vikram Goud himself, and for which he struck a Rs 50-lakh deal with a gang of hired shooters," he added.

Talking to mediapersons at his office on Wednesday, the City Police Commissioner said that while five persons were already arrested in connection with the incident, Goud would be arrested soon after his discharge from the hospital. Cops picked up four persons and even recovered the pistol used in the crime from the Shaikpet lake.

Three of the accused confessed that while they took positions outside the house when the firing occurred, their handler was inside the house. The cops launched a manhunt to nab the principal accused who reportedly fled to Karnataka from the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh.

As he was earlier involved in the movies, Vikram Goud scripted the shooting drama and arranged real shooters to enact it. The gunmen, arranged by his friend Nandu, conducted a recce three days before the incident. Once they were ready for the action, Goud threw them a party where he cautioned them not to kill him but only injure him.

As pre-planned, the shooters reached Goud's house at 3 am, and two of them entered inside. One of them shot a round at Goud as he sat on a sofa. Then Goud insisted on a second round, which the shooters fired. They fled the place thereafter and threw the gun in the Shaikpet lake.

Goud did all this to save himself from the pressure of his creditors and also to get sympathy of his father, who had distanced himself from the son after his failure in businesses. Vikram Goud is reportedly indebted to the tune of Rs 50 crores. He incurred losses in a pub in Madhapur and in a mining business.

Goud is recuperating in Apollo Hospital for the bullet injuries and will be produced before the court in due course, the Commissioner said.