Mohali, June 30 -- Police booked two persons on Sunday after they allegedly broke into a locked cattle enclosure in Zirakpur's Dialpura village and stole a buffalo and two calves, leaving the owner to trace the suspects through CCTV footage.

The complainant, Baljit Singh, a labourer from Dialpura village, told police that he kept the animals in a walled enclosure about 350 yards from his house. The shed contained a room where he tied the livestock every night before locking the main gate.

On the night of June 11, Baljit secured the enclosure and returned home. When he reached the shed around 4.30 am the next morning, he found the lock broken and the buffalo and both calves missing.

Baljit and his family scanned CCTV cameras installed a...