ahmedabad the body of 93yearold rasiklal mehtawho retired as an engineer with a state electricity companywas found in his en suite bathroom at his home in darshan society near vedant hospital in the navrangpura area of the city on saturday morning mehta had been smothered to death with a pillow and his postmortem revealed injuries to the back of his head inflicted by a blunt weaponthe perpetrator left the scene in the mehta family car which was parked outside the house after stealing the key from the drawing room police have recovered cctv footage from the scene and from along the route the suspect took after the incidentjoint teams of navrangpura police and city crime branch are investigating multiple leads and a team was sent to prantij in north gujarat on the basis of a specific input city police hope to solve the case in a short whilenavrangpura police said kamlesh mehta 58 is a businessman in the engineering industry he lives at darshan society with his father rasiklal wife rupal and daughter dhwani according to his statement his siblings brother bhavin and sister harsha had visited rasiklal on friday evening kamlesh and his wife had gone to a ganesh pandal in the night they returned at 1145pm and went to sleepon saturday kamleshs wife wanted to go to yoga class but could not find the car key at 6am and went back to bed at 7am his daughter asked for the keys as the keys were not at the usual place the family decided to use the extra key that was kept in rasiklals room they found his door locked from the inside and he did not respond to repeated banging the family then accessed the room from a door that opens into the garden said r v desai inspector of navrangpura police station adding that the family also realized that the car was missing from drivewaythe family found rasiklal lying in the bathroom with blood oozing out of his nose and ears a bloodsmeared pillow was found nearby police deduced that he had been asphyxiated to death the perpetrator arranged the pillows in his bed to create the illusion that rasiklal was sleeping there were signs of a struggle in the room and the place had been rummaged through an electronic safe however could not be opened by the accused said investigatorswas revenge the motivemehta 93 was a yoga enthusiast and was active he also drove the car investigators said that they have ruled out any enmity in family as his sons and two daughters are wellsettled the family has ties to bjp leader surendra patel through the marriage of patel and mehtas grandchildren police looked for the domestic help who was found at his home investigators learned that a theft had taken place at the house earlier this year thus the old domestic help is under the scanner he was apprehended but no charges were pressed as the residence was accessed using a duplicate key