The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday threw out a petition seeking to determine criminal liability of President Benigno Aquino 3rd, as well as Budget Secretary Florencio Abad and Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman, over the government’s conditional cash-transfer (CCT) program.

During en banc deliberations, the SC ruled in a resolution that the petition filed by Romeo C. Bayogos must be dismissed for lack of form and substance.

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