05 December 2004	Sunday	22 Shawwal 1425

SHIKARPUR, Dec 4: Heavy contingents of police from five districts have failed to find any clue to the two additional sessions judges, Abdul Wahab Abbasi and Farooq Ahmed Channa, who were kidnapped on Friday.

DIG (operation) Ramzan Channa and District and Sessions Judge Shikarpur Ghulam Ali Samtio visited on Saturday the place from where the judges had been kidnapped.

Police teams followed footprints of the kidnappers which were lost in Ayub Kharos village, Garhi Yasin taluka.

Police and Rangers conducted a raid on the village with the help of sniffer dogs but failed to find the judges.

According to reliable sources, 100 villagers, including a notable, were taken in police custody for interrogation.

Our Sukkur correspondent adds: More than 25 suspects have been arrested during a crackdown on outlaws in the kutcha area of Hafizabad, Shikarpur district, for the recovery of the judges.

Police suspected the kidnapped judges had been kept somewhere in the Golodero forest.

The entire forest has been cordoned off by police and pickets have been established on the roads leading to Sukkur, Shikarpur and Larkana cities.

Police sources said besides sniffer dogs, services of foot-trackers had been sought.

Police also conducted a raid on Hafizabad village.

Shikarpur DPO K.K. Memon said all-out efforts were under way to recover the kidnapped judges safely.

He said at the moment he was not able to say who was behind the kidnapping.

He claimed that the kidnapped judges would be recovered soon.

An informed source told Dawn that no private or official guard accompanied the judges when they had been kidnapped while coming to Shikarpur from Larkana.

He claimed that when the judges had demanded police escort, the police officials told them that a police team was waiting for them outside the city but when they were outside the city, they did not find any escort.