New Delhi:
The whistleblower who recorded the alleged abuse of children by caregivers at the on-campus daycare inside the Capgemini technology park in Bengaluru has been arrested for circulating the horrifying clips.
According to the police, the woman who brought the alleged abuse to light "leaked the sensitive videos", and so an action is being taken against her.
This comes a day after she was taken to the police station for questioning. The whistleblower's family members and other activists had claimed that the police did not disclose the purpose of the questioning and expressed apprehensions over the intentions behind keeping her in custody for an extended period.
Horrifying videos of the abuse were shared by the whistleblower this week, showing children as young as two years old sitting inside the drum of a front-loading washing machine, with caregivers putting water from a jet spray on them. Another video showed the staff locking the children inside bathrooms.
The videos quickly went viral, prompting a police complaint and a separate complaint before the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights.
Shortly after this, the daycare fired the whistleblower who exposed the alleged abuse.
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