The shocking revelations of mistreatment and abuse of toddlers, including stuffing children into a washing machine and spraying them with the toilet bidet, at the daycare centre on global IT services giant Capgemini's Bengaluru campus have moved the needle back to three fundamental issues plaguing urban working mothers in the formal sector.

After the anonymous call to the city's child protection unit and the surfacing of videos online, the Bengaluru police booked five women workers and arrested one of them; the probe is ongoing.

Inexplicably, the woman whistleblower, who surreptitiously recorded the abuse on her mobile phone, was also arrested. The company closed the daycare centre, which, reports say, provided care to 20-30 children of employees on most........

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