The UP top cop’s statement made to The Quint seems to rubbish the recent alarming – and maybe even outlandish – claim by the Bihar police that the ISI was behind the derailment of the Indore-Patna Express near Kanpur in November 2016. The accident had left almost 150 dead. A senior official in the safety department of the railways that The Quint spoke to also trashed the Bihar cops’ theory.

Bihar police had declared that it has arrested three criminals who allegedly confessed to their role in planting a cooker bomb that caused the derailment.

UP DGP Ahmad also said that the sabotage theory is being probed. He added that the sabotage claim made by Bihar police needs to be corroborated with evidence.