The Criminal Court accepted a complaint yesterday by five men to have arrest warrants against them revoked, following their claim that police wrongly identified them as suspects who planted bombs in Bangkok on New Year's Eve.

Pratya Preechavej and Yutthaphong Kittisriworraphan, plus three other people in police photos, told the court their lives had been "adversely affected" by the warrants - and they wanted them revoked.

In their written complaint the five said that since last Friday they had been followed by "bounty hunters" and were frequently questioned by people who assumed they may have been involved in the bomb attacks that killed three people and injured dozens of others.

The court set today for the first hearing. Police will be summoned to clarify their stance over the arrest warrants, which were approved by a judge after being persuaded by police that the two men in the video footage were the real bombers.

Pratya said he was relieved after the court accepted his complaint and he would respect a final decision if the warrants ended up still valid after the hearing.

His lawyer Phanuwat Khongthanayakul said police had no reason not to have the warrants revoked.

Phanuwat repeated Pratya's and Yutthaphong's insistence that they were in fact the two men in police photos, although they only said they looked similar to them in a police press conference afterwards.

He said all five people could produce evidence to the court that they did go to Seacon Square on December 31 last year, including movie tickets and a restaurant receipt.

Deputy Bangkok police chief Pol Maj General Jate Mongkholhatthee, who was part of a police team that secured the warrants, declined to comment but said the five had the right to have the warrants revoked.

Acting police chief Seripisut Temiyavej said yesterday the suspects "were not Pratya and Yutthaphong", but other people living in the South and revealing their identifies "might prompt them to flee ..."