SUKKUR, April 20: A fresh police contingent was summoned on Monday to intensify the ongoing clean-up operation against bandits and outlaws in the Shah Belo forest near Sukkur.

According to police sources the dacoits were avoiding an exchange of fire and a very few incidents of two-way fire had been reported during the last three days, while the law-enforcing agencies were busy in strengthening their positions in the thickest parts of the forest.

Meanwhile, some senior journalists of Sukkur were taken for the aerial inspection of the area under operation on Monday for the second day in a row. High-ranking police officials informed the journalists that the operation was aimed at cleaning the area from dacoits and outlaws without disturbing the routine life of the villagers, who are busy in harvesting of wheat crop.

"But the operation will continue till its logical end. All the routes to and from the Shah Belo forest have been sealed and no one can enter or exit the area," the police officials added.

The aerial survey was arranged on the directives of IGP Sindh Syed Kamal Shah. The journalists were also taken to police base camps established at Fatoo Pattan, Raza village, Razi Belo, Mangi Pattan, Bachal Bhayo and others. On the last weekend IGP Sindh Syed Kamal Shah personally visited the entire area where the operation was going on told this scribe that the government was not considering general amnesty for dacoits or outlaws.