The police have registered offences against an unidentified person for allegedly posting objectionable comments against a Chhattisgarh minister on a social media platform in the state’s Raigarh district.

The Kharsia police lodged a case on Monday evening, following a complaint by local chief municipal officer Praveen Singh Gehlot, Kharsia’s sub-divisional officer of police (SDOP) Ashok Wadegaonkar said today.

Efforts were on to trace the unidentified person who posted the comments, he said.

In his complaint, Gehlot alleged that on October 13, when Chhattisgarh’s commerce and industry minister Amar Agrawal was in Kharsia for a farmers’ programme, the accused person posted some objectionable comments against him in a group on social messaging platform WhatsApp, the SDOP said.