Padma Shri Awardee Bula Chowdhury's Medals Stolen from her ancestral home in Bengal

Padma Shri awardee former swimmer Bula Chowdhury said thieves have stolen medals and mementos from her ancestral home in West Bengal's Hooghly district.

Chowdhury said she lost everything she had earned in her entire life.

"Thieves have taken away everything I earned in my entire life through my hard work and dedication. All medals, including the six gold medals I



won at the SAAF Games and the Padma Shri brooch, have been stolen," Chowdhury said to the media reporters on Friday.

The former swimmer alleged that the thieves have also stolen all the mementos but left the Arjuna Award and the Tenzing Norgay medals.

"Probably they did not recognise the Arjuna Award and the Tenzing Norgay medals, as they were smaller in size," she said.