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2005-01-28 |
CHICO-NAZARIO, J. |
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| As correctly pointed out by private respondents, petitioners are not being indicted for simply performing their duties as officers of the Department of Agrarian Reform and in committing honest mistakes in the process.[22] Rather, they are being made criminally accountable by the Office of the Ombudsman for allegedly performing such duties in a despotic manner and in gross bad faith which caused considerable damage and injury to private respondents and which gave unwarranted benefits to third persons.[23] There being no grave abuse of discretion in the handling of the case by public respondents, we find no cogent reason to interfere in their determination of probable cause. Suffice it to say that our ruling in Gonzales, Jr. v. Alvarez[24] - that Pres. Decree No. 27 applies and operates only to bona fide tenants-farmers - finds application to herein disquisition. | |||||