Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday submitted to the Supreme Court (SC) the questionnaire of its household survey and replies of the respondents a day after it was asked to do so.
A printed copy of the questionnaire was submitted to the court. All other documents containing the litigants’ perception of the judiciary were given in three compact disks, said TIB Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman.
“The survey report will be found fully consistent if it is compared with the data maintaining the methodology we have used during our survey,” he told The Daily Star.
Iftekharuzzaman hoped that misgivings created due to newspaper reports on allegations about the TIB report will be removed when the SC looks into the documents submitted to it.
Badrul Alam Bhuyian, SC deputy registrar, confirmed receipt of the documents.
Iftekharuzzaman said TIB did not give identities of the respondents in compliance with international norms of survey. The SC also had not asked for those.
He mentioned that the questionnaire consisted of seven categories. Those concerned type of cases, level of courts, nature of corruption and harassment, bribery and amounts of money involved.
“The objective of TIB’s survey was not to point finger at any individual but to assess the gravity and extent of the problems and create public demands for their solution, and to recommend taking proper steps by the authorities concerned,” said Iftekharuzzaman. .
The SC on Monday termed “unclear” and “incomplete” the corruption watchdog’s survey report regarding the judiciary, submitted to it on December 29.
Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque next day formed a five-member committee consisting of senior High Court judges to examine those.
The TIB report released on December 23 in the capital created a commotion and drew flak from the law minister. And three cases — two in Chittagong and one in Comilla– were filed.
