India, July 6 -- Five caregivers at a daycare centre inside global IT major Capgemini's Brookfield campus in Bengaluru have been booked for subjecting toddlers in their care to physical and mental abuse.

Videos of the alleged abuse went viral on social media and show how children as young as two-years-old were made to sit inside a front-loading washing machine, locked inside bathrooms and had water from a toilet jet sprayed into their mouths.

The actions were reportedly carried out by the daycare centre employees as 'punishment' to the children who cried or made a noise.

The videos, according to early reports, were recorded between June 21 and 23 by a whistleblower whose services were terminated last month. Some reports suggest she was...