THE Court of Appeals (CA) has cleared a police officer who was charged and dismissed along with several others in connection with the allegedly unlawful arrest and torture of a suspected member of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in 2006.
In a 12-page decision penned by Associate Justice Hakim Abdulwahid and concurred in by Associate Justices Romeo Barza and Ramon Cruz, the CA’s Fifth Division absolved Police Senior Inspector Dante Yang from criminal liability and is deemed entitled to retirement benefits after his appeal was granted.
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