It is a Christmas filled with trepidation for the nuns at St Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity Home in Vile Parle West. A front-page report in this paper yesterday stated how a woman named Sapna Pereira, who is notorious in Mumbai for hooliganism, violence, threats and intimidation, has been targeting this ashram for a few years now. The incidents though have escalated of late.

The woman, who is a criminal, has been rampaging the ashram. She has pilfered the ration storehouse, stoned the institution hurling the missiles from outside and even hit the sisters. She has thrown stones on a sister who is suffering from cancer. The sisters have approached the police for help. Shamefully, two local police stations always pass the buck on each other.