India, Aug. 17 -- Police recovered 295 medals, including gold medals and a replica of the Padma Shri medal, stolen from the residence of former national swimming champion Bula Chowdhury in West Bengal's Hooghly district, and arrested a person from the Rishra area on Sunday.

The recovery was made a day after the state Criminal Investigation Department (CID) was given charge of the investigation. "Chowdhury had told us more than 150 medals and the Padma Shri medallion were stolen from her home in the Hindmotor area. We have recovered 295 medals. We believe 99% of the stolen items have been found. Chowdhury has to identify these," deputy commissioner of police of Serampore Arnab Biswas said.

"Joint efforts by the CID, the detective departm...