PATNA, Jan. 7 -- Senior Bihar IPS officer Vinay Kumar is now set to join the National Investigation Agency (NIA), only the second officer from the state to be selected for the apex probe agency. The state government has notified that he would be relieved to join the national duty.

Kumar is currently IG (Operations). Before him, another IG-rank officer Vikash Vaibhav (2003 batch), then an SP-rank officer, also got an opportunity to work with NIA.

Vinay Kumar is a 2004 batch IPS officer, who was involved in major anti-terrorist operations, including the prize catch of Yasin Bhatkal alias Muhammad Ahmed Zarrar Siddibappa, co-founder of Indian Mujahideen.

In 2013, one of the terror masterminds Yasin Bhatkal of Indian Mujahideen and his aid...