THE Supreme Court (SC) has rejected a bid to exhume the body of former president Ferdinand Marcos from the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB), denying with finality motions to bury the late strongman elsewhere.

At the en banc or full court deliberations on Tuesday, majority of the magistrates dismissed the petitions filed by Rep. Edcel Lagman of Albay; Loretta Ann Pargas-Rosales, former human rights chairman; former senator Heherson Alvarez; Zaira Patricia Baniaga; Algamar Latiph and Sen. Leila de Lima.

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