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2 SC justices in Limkaichong case leak probe inhibit selves


MANILA, Philippines – Two Supreme Court justices tasked to investigate the leakage of the unpromulgated decision on the Limkaichong election case resigned from the investigating committee on Wednesday. Associate Justices Consuelo Ynares-Santiago and Antonio Carpio voluntarily inhibited themselves from the three-man investigating committee headed by Senior Associate Justice Leonardo Quisumbing, according to court spokesman Jose Midas Marquez. Chief Justice Reynato Puno formed the committee to find out who leaked what he called a “confidential internal document," which he said reached Laguna-based businessman Louis Biraogo, one of the litigants in the election case against Negros Oriental Rep. Jocelyn Limkaichong. Santiago and Carpio were replaced by Justices Renato Corona and Conchita Carpio-Morales, Marquez said. Marquez said Carpio inhibited from the panel because he was mentioned in the compliance filed by Biraogo explaining why he should not be cited in contempt for possessing a copy of the unpromulgated decision of retired Justice Ruben Reyes. Santiago, on the other hand, inhibited herself because Reyes was "not comfortable with her," Marquez said. Before the justices resigned from the panel, the committee had already held two meetings on the issue. Puno, in a three-page en banc resolution, created the investigating committee to determine who were responsible for the breach in the "cloak of confidentiality" of the document and to recommend appropriate actions. - GMANews.TV
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