vadodara investigations into the brutal murder of bjp member sachin thakkar has revealed that he had gone to the house of the key accused on the fateful day according to the police thakkar knocked on the doors of key accused parth parikhs mother house in the race course area on july 25 to confront him and ask him why he isnt coming to the police station to give his statement thakkars cousin pritesh had earlier filed an application at gotri police station on july 9 about an altercation over a parking issue with parikh regarding which thakkar had gone to parikhs mothers house to meet parikh hours later thakkar and his cousin pritesh were assaulted with sticks in an open plot in the race course area by parikh wasik ajmeri and vikas lohana that led to his death said h a rathod acp crime branchwhile thakkar succumbed to his grievous injuries pritesh survived with severe injuries cctv footage of the assault went viral in the city some days ago it was a trivial fight over a parking issue parikh used to park his vehicle in the plot adjacent to a lane near chakli circle and this led to some altercation with pritesh on july 9 said a police official the gotri police didnt act swiftly on the application filed by pritesh a head constable handling the investigation was suspended later for not investigating the complaint properly the case was then handed over to the crime branch that recovered the sticks with which the deceased was assaulted apart from other evidence the cops also added the ipc section of criminal conspiracy in the case the investigators have searched parikhs mothers house and his other home in laxmipura area as well while thakkar is an active member of the bjp parikh is son of babul parikh who was known as a strongman in the city many years ago parikh reportedly dabbles in real estate the police said that the thakkar and parikh didnt have any previous enmity