Former national swimming champion Bula Choudhury's house was burgled in and several of her mementos stolen at Hindmotor area in Hooghly district early today.
Choudhury said that the burglars took away a golden crown given at a felicitation by previous Buddhadev Bhattacharjee government, a Sahara Parivar golden medal, a golden crown for swimming record, besides several citations about her achievement in sports.
"They also took away some jewelleries stored in the locker after twisting the door keys on ground floor and the first floor. More than the economic value I was emotionally attached with many of the stolen articles," Choudhury said after lodging a formal complaint with the police.
Confirming the theft, the Inspector-in-Charge Uttarpara police station Arijit Dasgupta said police were talking to the swimmer and people in the neighbourhood.
The Arjuna awardee, the first woman to cross seven seas and having twice swam across the English Channel, had shifted to South Kolkata years back with her family, keeping the Hooghly property, near the Hindmotor rail station, locked.
