KOLKATA: The owner of Mitra Ghosh , one of the city's leading publishers, on Wednesday alleged that the police were deliberately trying to terrorize them for publishing a book, written by ADG police (training) Nazrul Islam, that questions several moves by the state government. The owner, Sabitendranath Roy , had earlier alleged that the police had raided the College Street office of the publishing house on Friday. The officials, however, denied this and said they had only bought some books from them. The publisher will file an RTI in the state police department to find out the reason behind the raid. "We want to see details of the order," said director of the publishing house Indrani Roy . "If the police think that we are selling a controversial book, why don't they read it and then publish criticisms? Why did they have to raid our premise, seal it and then look for copies of the book? This is illegal and we condemn it. We appeal to the administration to take action against such erring officers, if the state government claims to have nothing against the book," lashed out an angry Roy. The book, Muslimder Koroniyo, has been written by senior cop Nazrul Islam. He has criticized several decisions by the Mamata Banerjee government , including the plans to set up 10,000 madrassas and its focus on Aligarh Muslim University. "What Muslims need is secular and modern education and not madrassas. Similarly, instead of Aligarh, a modern university should have been set up," the book reads. Nazrul has also criticized the way many ministers had attended Iftaar parties without keeping the mandatory daytime fast. Again, insallah and khuda hafiz are often said in the same breath, which is actually hurtful to Islam, the book points out. Roy said that he had received a call first from the deputy commissioner of police, Debabrata Das, asking him to stop circulating the book. "After this, we removed all the books from our shop. However, a huge force of police, led by assistant commissioner N Chatterjee, locked up our premises on Friday and searched for the book. They terrorised our staff and kept shouting at our staffers and refused to believe that the books weren't there anymore. This went on for three hours," said Indrani Roy, director of the publishing house. The publishers have already sought legal help and lawyers Arunangshu Chatterjee and Arunava Ghosh are handling the matter. "We have been told that the state was in a good mind to ban the book. and hence unleashed the police on us. We want the people of the state to support us and raise their voices. This is nothing short of infringement on fundamental rights," Roy added. It was learnt from sources that Nazrul might file a defamation suit against some media houses that were calling him names for trying to "disrupt" peace and instigate violence. has sought justice against "police terror" that has been "hounding them since Thursday night and has left them left them "maimed". Publisher Sabitendranath Roy related the entire incident to the media at a press conference on Wednesday and said that the police was deliberately trying to terrorise his publishing house for publishing a book that questions the state government's stand vis a vis the Muslims. TOI had earlier reported that the enforcement branch had reportedly raided the publisher's College Street premise on Friday noon in an effort to confiscate copies of the book. The police however denied this and said that they had bought copies of the book.