In this work we have extended the Maurya-Gupta isotropic fluid solution to Einstein field equations to an aniso-tropic domain. To do so, we have employed the gravitational decoupling via the minimal geometric deformation approach. The present model is representing the strange star candidate LMC X-4. A mathematical, physical and graphical analysis, shown that the obtained model fulfills all the criteria to be an admissible solution of the Einstein field equations. Specifically, we have analyzed the regularity of the metric potentials and the effective density, radial and tangential pressures within the object, causality condition, energy conditions, equilibrium via Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff equation and the stability of the model by means of the adiabatic index and the square of subliminal sound speeds.