Overview
- Viral clips showing toddlers allegedly abused at the Little Scholars creche on Capgemini’s Brookefield campus prompted an FIR that named five caregivers after footage reached authorities late in June.
- Police made the first arrest of caregiver Vijayalakshmi and then took the woman who publicised the videos into custody, with multiple reports saying she was remanded to judicial custody in early July.
- Investigators allege the former employee recorded and staged at least one clip and admitted to locking a child in a washroom, and her phone has been sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory to check for editing or tampering.
- National and state rights bodies including the NHRC, NCPCR and KSCPCR have opened suo motu inquiries, and Capgemini has temporarily closed the on‑campus creche while offering counselling and support to families.
- The case has raised two urgent issues for parents and employers: how to verify digital evidence of child abuse without harming victims’ privacy and how to protect people who report harm so future abuses are not left unreported.