South kolkata

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee: The Padma Shri award of internationally acclaimed Indian swimmer, also an Arjuna Award winner, Bula Chowdhury, has been stolen from her ancestral residence at Hind-Motor in Hooghly district of West Bengal on Friday.

Although Choudhury, who was also a former CPI(M) legislator from 2026 and 2011, currently stays in Kasba in South Kolkata, all her awards, trophies, and medals, which she earned during her swimming career, were displayed at her ancestral residence at Hind-Motor.

She used to come to her ancestral residence every week and inspect whether her awards, trophies, and medals were preserved and maintained properly. On Friday, it was noted that her Padma Shri award shield was missing from the place where it was displayed.