Calcutta, June 25: Cash and ornaments worth Rs 7 lakh have been stolen from the Ultadanga quarters of a senior official of the Reserve Bank of India who has recently been transferred to Pune.

“One of the residents of the RBI quarters at Ultadanga saw the door of assistant general manager Jawahar Lal Sau’s flat ajar around eight last night. We rushed in to find the flat burgled,” a police officer said.

Sau had left for Pune with his family a few days ago. But he was yet to shift his belongings from his fifth-floor Ultadanga flat. He flew down to Calcutta this morning after being informed about the theft.

Sau has said in his police complaint that gold jewellery weighing 300 grams, some silver utensils and Rs 30,000 in cash had been stolen.

“The lock on the flat’s main door had been broken open. The cupboard had also been broken and the flat ransacked,” the officer said.

“There are no CCTVs in the building. We are trying to prepare a list of people who visited the building in the past three-four days,” said an officer of the anti-burglary cell of the city police.

The house of a group-D staff of the RBI in Narkeldanga, around 2km from Ultadanga, was also burgled yesterday evening.

Gold ornaments weighing 180 grams and Rs 20,000 in cash were stolen.