Hyderabad: Dr Shashi Kumar’s wife P. Kanti on Tuesday alleged a conspiracy and said that her husband did not kill himself but was murdered. She alleged that her husband’s partners Dr Sai Kumar and Dr Uday Kumar must have killed him with the help of hired assassins.
“All this is part of a drama to cover up the real issue. Uday Kumar and Sai Kumar must have kidnapped my husband with the help of goondas and killed him inside the farmhouse,” she told the media.
“I seek justice from the police who should investigate the real issues in the matter,” she said. Though Moinabad police said that Dr Shashi Kumar had called her and said “I am sorry” before committing suicide, she denied the police’s version.
Dr Shashi Kumar, who was living in an independent house in Chaitanyapuri, has a daughter and a son. The daughter, P. Niharika, is an MBBS First Year student, while the son, P. Sai Nikit, is a class IX student.
Dr Kumar’s brother Mr R.K. Pathak is a pilot working with Indigo Airlines. He came to the OGH morgue to accept the body after post-mortem on Tuesday.
Medicos shocked by the incident
The medical fraternity is shaken by Monday’s shooting incident and the subsequent suicide of Dr Sashi Kumar, which has brought to the fore the fragile business practices and unprofessional manner in which disputes are addressed.
A senior doctor said, “Joint ventures amongst doctors are like any other business partnership that are governed by the rules of business. It has to be conducted in a proper manner where the legal rights and benefits of each one are properly defined. When the ventures are taken up by having proper business planners, chartered accountants and legal experts then the thin line between investments, costs and profits are properly demarcated.”
Mahender Pala, an expert in hospital management said, “In most business ventures, doctors appoint managers who look into the business aspects of the hospital. This also includes dealing with investors and also the non-clinical aspects of administration.”
But when doctors have looked into both clinical and non-clinical aspects there have been disputes as most of them are not able to handle issues professionally.
A senior doctor said, “Often doctors are found to get worked up as it is their savings that go as investments. Hence that makes them very touchy and it is then that things turn ugly.”
