The chief justice has taken the household survey report of Transparency International Bangladesh with a lot of importance to embark on necessary measure for curbing corruption, if any, in the judiciary, said TIB Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman yesterday.
“The judges said that they including the chief justice has taken the survey report with much emphasis and it will help them to take necessary measure to go forward for curbing corruption, if any, in the judiciary,” he said.
Iftekharuzzaman said this after a meeting with a committee formed to evaluate the TIB survey report released on December 23 that said judiciary was the “most corrupt” service sector in the country last year.
Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque on December 30 last year formed the committee of five senior High Court judges--Justice MA Wahhab Miah, Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana, Justice Md Imman Ali, Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain and Justice Sheikh Rezowan Ali.
The judges asked the TIB officials whether they have got full information of cases or courts in the survey. “As per our jurisdiction, we do not collect full information of cases or courts. We preserve only the names and information of persons who responded to the survey questions,” replied Iftekharuzzaman.
“They judges asked us about the survey method. We said TIB followed sampling method of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and all sorts of internationally recognised survey methods. So there should be no question about the credibility of the survey method,” he said.
“In response to a question of judges as quoted 'Judiciary is a large sector. What do you mean by judiciary? We said we mean persons and institutions, which the people face during a legal battle,” said Iftekharuzzaman.
TIB trustee board Chairman M Hafizuddin Khan and five judges were present at the hour-long meeting that started at 4:30pm.
Supreme Court Registrar M Ashraful Islam told The Daily Star his office is yet to get any directive from the committee.
A highly placed source in the SC said the committee would place the report on the meeting before Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque within three or four days for taking the next course of action.
The SC on Wednesday invited three top officials of TIB to a tea party for talks on the questionnaire and replies of its recent household survey.
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