noidanew delhipune early on tuesday around the time they let in newspaper vendors car washers and maids guards at noidas hyde park sector 78 stood aside for an unusual group of visitors that sought access to a flat in the housing societys c block on the 21st floorfor six hours beginning 630am the group pune police personnel some in uniform some in civvies remained in delhi university assistant professor hany babus flat it was described as a search and seizure operation linked to the elgar parishad probe in which pune police have arrested several academics and activists for alleged maoist linksshivaji pawar acp pune police investigating officer in the case said no arrest was made on tuesday we did a search operation at babus residence in connection with the elgar parishad case pawar said babu 45 who is part of the english faculty at dus north campus and has been teaching at the varsity for over a decade told toi that the 20odd cops were mostly interested in his books and electronic materialbooks on terror dont make me a terroristbabu said the pune cops were mostly interested in the books he had and nothing else i have books on terrorism that doesnt make me a terrorist so a book on maoism will make me a maoist he saidthe raid was strongly condemned by the delhi university teachers association duta which described it as an attack on academic freedom and on freedom of expression that went against the very essence of democracy not only has he hany babu been an outstanding teacher he has also been an active participant in struggles for academic freedom democratic rights lawful and democratic functioning of the university equal access to university education and social justice a duta statement saidcomplete text of duta press release today tuesday morning at 630 am the house of dr hany babu who lives in noida was raided by a contingent of pune police for six hours without a search warrant they searched the entire house and took away all electronic devices laptops pen drives mobile phone etc at the end of the search the pune police claimed that the raid was in connection with the bhima koreagaon casedr hany babu is an associate professor at the english department of the university of delhi for more than a decade his wife also teaches in the english department of miranda house university of delhi not only has he been an outstanding teacher but has been an active participant in struggles for academic freedom democratic right lawful and democratic functioning of the university equal access to university education and social justicesuch raids without search warrants are against the very essence of democracy individual freedom and open the door for planting evidence arbitrary use of instruments of the state to harass and intimidate dissent is inexcusable such intolerance towards criticism and dissent was the basis for the insidious attempt that was made last year to amend the delhi university act and apply