Molestation accused businessman Nikhil Priyadarshi, who was arrested in Uttarakhand with his father on Tuesday, will be brought to Patna on transit remand on Thursday.

Patna senior superintendent of police Manu Maharaaj said Nikhil and his father Krishna Bihari Sinha, a retired IAS officer, were produced before an Uttarakhand court on Wednesday. Patna police petitioned the court seeking transit remand of the detainees, who were evading arrest in the case of alleged sexual exploitation of a former Congress minister's minor daughter.

"The court allowed the police three-day transit remand of the arrested persons, which means they will be produced in a local court (in Patna) within three days," Maharaaj told The Telegraph. "We have also taken help of the Uttarakhand police in bringing the arrested accused to Patna."

The father-son duo were arrested on Tuesday two-and-a-half months after giving Bihar police the slip while travelling in a Haryana-registered Audi in the northern hill state's Paudi Garhwal district. A four-member police team was dispatched to Uttarakhand from Patna to bring the duo for questioning.

The Uttarakhand police had searched Nikhil's name on Google only to find he was wanted in a molestation case in Patna. Paudi Garhwal superintendent of police, Mukhtar Mohsin, a batchmate of Maharaaj, had contacted the Patna SSP to ascertain the detainee's identity.

Nikhil was evading arrest in the sexual exploitation case lodged with the ST/ST police station in Patna for the past 80 days. "We had earlier sent our teams to at least three states in search of the accused but they managed to dodge the police every time. Finally they were traced in Uttarakhand," a senior police officer said.

Sources said Nikhil's arrest has made several politicians and bureaucrats worried as the businessman, before disappearing, had threatened to upload video clips of VIPs on social media to expose them if he was forced to surrender.

CID inspector-general (weaker sections) Anil Kishore Yadav could not be reached for comment.

A police officer who was once close to Nikhil said: "We are passing sleepless nights ever since his name figured in the sex abuse case." The officer is already on the radar of the CID which is probing the case.