A first information report has been registered against Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur for making allegedly objectionable remarks about Union Home Minister Amit Shah, reported PTI on Sunday.

The Bharatiya Janata Party had earlier filed a complaint against Moitra in West Bengal’s Krishnanagar for saying that Shah’s head should be cut off for allowing undocumented immigration into India. The Trinamool Congress said that the remark, made on Thursday, was not meant to be taken literally.

The case in Raipur was registered based on a complaint by Gopal Samanto, a resident, on Saturday, according to The Indian Express.

The Trinamool Congress MP has been booked under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections pertaining to promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language (196) and imputations prejudicial to national integration (197), Raipur Superintendent of Police Lal Umed Singh was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

Speaking to reporters in West Bengal’s Nadia district on Thursday, the Krishnanagar MP alleged that Shah had failed to “check infiltrators” at the borders.

Noting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has repeatedly claimed that undocumented immigrants from other countries were entering India and taking away land, Moitra asked whose responsibility it was to protect the borders and stop them from entering.

“If we don’t have anyone to protect our borders, if people from another country are entering every day, if our citizens complain that infiltrators are eyeing our mothers and sisters and snatching our lands, then the first thing you should do is cut Amit Shah’s head and put it on your table,” Moitra was quoted as having said.

The remarks came in the backdrop of several Bengali-speaking migrant workers – mostly Muslims – being detained in parts of the country on suspicion of being Bangladeshis. The Trinamool Congress has accused the BJP of unleashing “linguistic terror” on Bengali-speaking persons.

Sandeep Majumdar, the BJP spokesperson who filed the complaint against Moitra in Krishnangar, described the MP’s remarks as “anti-nationalist” and “anti-state”.

BJP leader Rahul Sinha said that the “distasteful and objectionable” remarks made by Moitra reflected her mindset and that of the Trinamool Congress.

Kunal Ghosh, Moitra’s party colleague, had said that through her remarks, the Krishnanagar MP meant to say that Shah’s name will go out of people’s hearts.

“She did not mean that she would physically cut the head of Amit Shah, it was only an expression and at most a grammatical complex, there is no need to take it literally,” Ghosh said.