KARACHI: The administrative judge of the antiterrorism courts directed on Friday an additional inspector general of the Sindh police to take action against the police officials responsible forfalsely booking two citizens under the anti-terror law.

The Saudabad police had detained Naveed and Arsalan on March 26 and claimed that they were arrested after a shootout with police and unlicensed weapons were found with them.

The police booked them in anattempted murder case as well as two illicit weapons cases and incorporated the relevant section of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997, in the FIRs.

Later, the investigation of the cases was transferred to the south zone police.

The investigating officer,Inspector Shahzad Ali, submitted the investigation report under B (bogus) class, which stated that the cases were forged.

The report said that no encounter took place and the weapons were foisted upon the detained men. The administrative judge ordered the release of both suspects and directed the AIG of Karachi to take legal action against the police officials.

The main case was registered under Sections 324 (attempted murder), 353 (criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code read with Section 7 of the ATA at the Saudabad police station.

Both men were also separately booked under the Sindh Arms Act, 2013.

Meanwhile, the same court allowed the police to interrogate the interned chief of the banned Lyari Peoples Aman Committee, Uzair Baloch, in another murder case.