Mumbai's nightmare Sapna terrorising sisters at Missionaries of Charity

Sister Medard demonstrates how she was punched by Sapna PicSayyed Sameer AbediWhile it is the season to be jolly the Mother Teresas Missionaries of Charity home in Vile Parle is instead feeling fear as Sapna Pereira a local has terrified the sisters by repeatedly tormenting them and forcing them to part with ration Even the cops have no clue on how to deal with the womanWhen we visited the Ashram recently the sisters were filled with trepidation even talking about Sapna Pereira They said their tormentorinchief hurls stones from outside before taking a short walk on the wall and then scaling it to enter the ashramSapna threw stones at Sister Medard top left and punched her Sister Praxides says they give her ration but she keeps demanding moreSister Praxides incharge of the home said We do give Sapna rice dal and other ration and we have done this many times in the past but she wants more and more This ration is reserved for the poor Once she wanted a 5 kg can of oil and a 20 kg sack of atta we cannot give that much to one person as we keep measured amounts Once a month we have a Ration Day where the poor line up for ration We fear Sapna will arrive and wreak havoc on those daysRead Story No MHADA flat for drama queen Sapna PereiraThe sisters are so scared that they were keeping a watch out for Sapna even as they spoke to this reporter The watchman L Marquis said Sapna is very strong and can overpower people She throws stones into the ashram and has hurled a brick at me once The sisters claim have approached the cops several times but they keep getting told to go to Vile Parle and Santacruz station or made to wait for hours In the end cops tell them they have hundreds of complaints against her but they cannot do much in the matterWatchman L Marquis points to the gate Sapna enters fromAiling sister targetedSapnas attacks arent limited to stoning the ashram alone Sapna attacked me once just outside the Ashram when I was taking a cancerafflicted sister to the Nanavati hospital for chemotherapy She threw stones on me and the ailing sister punched me and dislodged my spectacles said sister Medard She added how Sapna broke the lock to their ration room once I wanted to push her inside and lock the room but she kept the door ajar and had one foot outsideParishioners K Misquitta and J Perreira said Someone will be very seriously injured here and we may be on the brink of some tragedy If she is not given what she wants she subjects the sisters and whoever else inside the home to a torrent of filthy verbal abuse The home houses at least 17 children as young as two with special needsVery dangerous womanThe adjoining St Francis Xaviers Church staff has also seen Sapna wreak havoc in the vicinity Fr Savio DSouza parish priest and manager St Xaviers Church school and junior college said Sapna has been creating problems for many years The sisters have also complained to me She had once even asked me to tell the sisters to give her ration and said if they do not give it to me I will use force She is relying on dadagiri might to get away with all this She is not a menace shes dangerousComplaints pile upThe sisters have sought the help of the police to deal with Sapna midday has copies of several letters written to police stations from the Missionaries of Charity complaining about Sapna An excerpt from a 2012 letter states She attacks the benefactors those who come to our institution by violently pulling them abusing the sisters stoning our institution using an iron rodAnother letter was written as recently as December 16 of this year to the Santa Cruz police station but they have received no significant help yetCopspeakDattatrey Bhargude ACP Santacruz division said She Sapna is a criminalminded woman We have arrested her for several crimes and have 8 to 10 offences against her When we arrest her and produce her in front of the Magistrate she starts shouting in court The court has warned her several times but she does not take heed We have also taken preventive action against her We have approached several NGOs but nobody wants her because of her behaviour We are thinking about what we should do She has recently fought with a woman where she suffered several injuries