MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court required a Senate committee headed by Sen. Risa Hontiveros to submit its comment to the petition and prayer for a temporary restraining order (TRO) filed by suspended Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo.

The Court gave the Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations and Gender Equality, represented by its chairman Hontiveros, to file its comment within a non-extendible period of 10 days from notice.

Guo seeks for the Court to nullify the subpoena issued by the committee and to issue a TRO and/or preliminary writ of injunction prohibiting or desisting the committee from further inviting her to appear as a resource person in the Senate hearings and from investigating her personal and private life.

The Court further required the Office of the Clerk of Court to personally serve the Court's resolution which shall likewise personally file and serve its comment.

The committee has been investigating the identity of Guo and her involvement in the illegal activities of Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs). It ordered her arrest and that of members of her family and alleged accomplices after they repeatedly rejected summons to appear at the hearings.

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