THE Court of Appeals (CA) has junked a petition filed by a high-ranking official of the Philippine National Police (PNP) assailing an order of the Office of the Ombudsman preventively suspending him along with several others in connection with the missing 1,004 high-powered AK47 firearms allegedly sold to the communist New People’s Army.

In a January 12, 2015 resolution penned by Associate Justice Leoncia Real-Dimagiba but was released to the media just recently, the appellate court outrightly dismissed a petition for certiorari filed by Police Chief Supt. Raul Petrasanta “for being insufficient in form and substance.”

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