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[1/3] Teodoro B. Pangilinan Vs. Guillermo T. Maglaya, Et Al.

[1/3] TEODORO B. PANGILINAN, petitioner, vs. GUILLERMO T. MAGLAYA, THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS, respondents.

G.R. No. 104216 | 1993-08-20

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

The petitioner complains that he has been removed from office without due process and just cause in disregard of his constitutional security of tenure. Worse, his removal was made in bad faith, immediately after his expose of certain anomalies in which his superiors were involved.

Teodoro B. Pangilinan joined the government service on July 18, 1966, when he was appointed agent in the National Bureau of Investigation, a position for which he had the appropriate civil service eligibility. He had risen to Supervising Agent when he resigned to accept appointment as Executive Director of the Land Transportation...