The Accountability Courts have been established for speedy disposal of cases involving corruption and corrupt practices, abuse of power, misappropriation property, kick backs, commission and formatter connected and ancillary or incidental thereto.
The very purpose of constitution of these Courts is to adjudicate cases of corrupt officials/persons and to recover outstanding amounts from those persons who have committed default in the repayment of amounts of banks, financial institution, Government and other agencies. The Courts are successfully achieving the objectives of National Accountability Ordinance, 1999 (XVII of 1999) by convicting the corrupt officials/persons and recovering considerable amounts which they had misappropriated, etc, and imposing as fines.