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Saligumba vs. Commission on Audit (COA) 117 SCRA 669

EDITHA B. SALIGUMBA, petitioner, vs. COMMISSION ON AUDIT AND LEONARDO ESTELLA, respondents.

G.R. No. L-61676 | 1982-10-18

R E S O L U T I O N 

ABAD SANTOS, J.: 

This is a petition to review the decision of the Commission on Audit (COA) in Administrative Case No. 81-525 for disgraceful and immoral conduct. 

On the basis of the sworn complaint of Editha Saligumba, the COA instituted the administrative case against Leonardo Estella, Auditing Examiner III, in the Auditor's Office of Misamis Occidental. The charge was that the respondent raped Editha Saligumba on several occasions. 

On April 12, 1982, the COA rendered a decision with the following judgment: 

"Wherefore, for insufficiency of evidence, the instant charge is hereby dropped....