The lifer managed to escape within six months of being transferred to Ahmedabad's Sabarmati Central Jail, just a year after his conviction in a murder case.
At the hospital, his friends told him that his father had been attacked by the four accused persons and another unidentified person, who were booked under the BNS section for murder.
Bagging nearly 59% of the votes, the late Govind Parmar's son Harshad Parmar defeated the Congress's Bhrugurajsingh Chauhan, who secured about 38% of the votes, in Umreth.