LUCKNOW, July 23 -- After keeping Lucknow Police on in the investigation trail for 48 hours and triggering an exercise that involved two dedicated probe teams, scrutiny of footage from nearly 40-50 CCTV cameras and a search through a forest, two missing buffaloes, collectively valued at around Rs.1.6 lakh, were recovered and a Barabanki resident was arrested, the police said on Wednesday.

According to police, the buffaloes were stolen from outside the homes of Abhishek Shukla, nephew of block pramukh Om Prakash Shukla, and his neighbour Vansh Deepak Awasthi in Bajpeyi Kheda village under Nigohan police station limits on the intervening night of July 17 and 18.

"After an FIR was lodged on July 19, police constituted two teams to crack th...