NEW DELHI: The home ministry on Tuesday denied being in receipt of any information on “tukde-tukde gang” — a terminology used by some BJP leaders to attack Left-leaning activists raising “anti-national” slogans.

“No such information has been brought to the notice of the government by any law enforcement agency,” minister of state for home G Kishan Reddy told the Lok Sabha in reply to a query on whether an organisation called the ‘tukde tukde gang’ had been identified and catalogued by the ministry of home affairs, National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) or any Central/state law enforcement agency/police or any Central or state intelligence structures.

The query from two Lok Sabha MPs had sought to know if the terminology ‘tukde-tukde gang’ was based on specific inputs provided by the ministry or other law enforcement/intelligence agencies.

It further asked if the MHA or NCRB or any other law enforcement agency had drawn up a list of alleged leaders and members of ‘tukde-tukde gang’ or was contemplating penal action or punishment against them.

