Hyderabad: The Telugu film star N Balakrishna, allegedly involved in a shooting incident leading to serious injuries to a producer and his associate, was remanded to two-week's judicial custody by a city court today (June 7, 2004).

Balakrishna, son of legendary hero and former Chief Minister late N T Rama Rao, was driven in an ambulance to the court of the Fifth Metropolitan Magistrate M Gandhi who remanded him to judicial custody till June 21 and directed the police to get the actor examined by Government doctors at NIMS hospital.

Forty-four-year-old Balakrishna, who had allegedly opened fire at producer B Suresh and an astrologer friend Satyanarayana Choudhary following an altercation over financial matters, has been undergoing treatment at a private hospital where he had got himself admitted hours after the shooting incident on June 3 night.

High drama had marked the actor's pre-dawn arrest from the hospital yesterday even as his fans continued to throng the city threatening to launch agitation if injustice was done to him.

Balakrishna, who is also the brother-in-law of former Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, had confessed before police yesterday that he had opened fire at the producer in self-defence after he was attacked with a knife.

However, Choudhary, who was seriously injured in the firing, told police that the film star fired indiscriminately without any provocation.