Bengaluru:
The Bengaluru police have defended the arrest of the woman whistleblower who recorded the alleged abuse of children by caregivers at the on-campus daycare inside the Capgemini technology park in the city, saying she was an "equal party" to the crime.
According to the police, there has been "enough evidence" against the whistleblower.
The whistleblower was arrested last week for circulating the horrifying clips of the abuse that showed 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.
"Something has gone wrong at the daycare center, 100 per cent. To what extent it went wrong, we are verifying. Legal procedures mandated under laws relating to juveniles were not followed after the incidents came to light...There had been a delay of several days in reporting the recorded evidence to the authorities," the police said.
The police have arrested two staff members, Vijayalakshmi and Manjula, in the case so far, as they have found substantial evidence against the two.
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