MANILA, Philippines ? A man whose photograph was attached by the Philippine National Police to a warrant of arrest issued against another man in connection with the Maguindanao massacre has asked the Quezon City court to stop the police from harassing him.

Mohammad Supiter Sangki filed a petition before Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 221 Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes to correct the mistake and order the PNP to leave him in peace.

In his petition, Supiter Sangki said his photograph was used to accompany the name of the prosecution star witness Mohammad Simpal Sangki, his uncle on the father?s side.

Supiter Sangki was wondering why policemen were still holding on to an arrest warrant against Mohammad Simpal Sangki, but with another man?s photograph, when Simpal has been placed under the protective custody of government as a witness in the case against the Ampatuans.

"This situation must be corrected as early as possible in order ... to avoid further complication on the matter specifically the arrest and detention of an innocent person," he said.

"(T)he person who was one of the accused of the instant case was already being kept and protected by the government," Supiter Sangki's motion stated.

Supiter Sangki recalled that last Nov. 2, operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group based in Cotabato City raided his house to arrest him.

Sangki said he was not at home when the police arrived. He insisted that the raid stemmed from the wrong information used by the police.

"My picture was attached in the court information the lawmen were using in the raid and the manhunt,'' he said.

Sangki also asked Reyes to direct the Department of Justice to immediately remove his photograph from the charge sheet.

The DOJ prosecutors earlier informed Judge Solis-Reyes that the PNP and the National Bureau of Investigation had custody of the photographs of the accused and the suspects in the Maguiindanao massacre.