Published Jul 14, 2026 | 9:12 PM ⚊ Updated Jul 14, 2026 | 9:12 PM
The Bengaluru City Police against five employees of the daycare operating on the Capgemini campus.
Synopsis: Little Scholars, a Bengaluru daycare booked earlier this month over allegations of cruelty to children, has alleged that former employees tried to extort money and defame the organisation after being dismissed. The management claimed the former staff staged videos involving children, demanded money and attempted to pressure the daycare by using the footage.
Little Scholars, a Bengaluru daycare operating on the Capgemini campus booked earlier this month over allegations of cruelty to children, has alleged that former employees tried to extort money and defame the organisation after being dismissed following an alleged workplace altercation.
The allegations follow a criminal case registered by the Bengaluru City Police against five employees of the daycare over allegations that they physically assaulted, intimidated and subjected children, most of them aged between two and three years, to cruelty.
Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, 14 July, proprietor Ramandeep Kaur and the company’s advocate, Aditya Krishna Pandey, claimed the former employees manipulated children into appearing in staged videos and later used the footage to demand money and seek reinstatement.
They alleged that the former employees targeted children who were unable to communicate and recorded videos outside the coverage of the daycare’s CCTV cameras.
“They specifically targeted vulnerable children who could not speak, relocated them to areas outside of our comprehensive CCTV coverage, and deliberately staged acts of distress to record them on video,” the Little Scholars team said.
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The dispute, according to the management, began on 25 June after an alleged physical and verbal altercation between two employees, Sujata and Vijaya Laxmi R, during working hours.
The management, citing a zero-tolerance policy towards workplace misconduct, reportedly terminated both employees immediately and instructed them to surrender their identification credentials.
While Vijaya Laxmi complied, Sujata allegedly refused to hand over her identity card, insisting that her pending salary be cleared first.
The daycare alleged that despite their termination, the two women repeatedly returned to the Capgemini campus in the following days, prompting intervention by ICREST Security. It further claimed that they managed to bring a prohibited mobile phone into the daycare and recorded the alleged staged videos.
The management said it transferred the employees’ pending salaries along with 15 days’ severance pay on 29 June in an attempt to resolve the dispute. However, it alleged that Sujata denied receiving the payment despite proof of transfer and threatened to release the videos to the media.
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The company further alleged that its former centre manager, Manjula, introduced a person identified as “Mahender”, who allegedly impersonated a police officer from the Electronic City Police Station. According to the management, he persuaded Kaur to transfer ₹20,000 towards purported legal expenses before demanding ₹2.5 lakh.
When the demand was refused, the management alleged that he repeatedly telephoned Kaur and forwarded news reports to exert pressure.
Little Scholars said four staff members subsequently appeared before the HAL Police, where they were allegedly informed that the person claiming to be a police officer had no association with the police force. The management alleged that one of the accused has since absconded.
The daycare also maintained that Capgemini had no role in the incident, stating that the company’s involvement was limited to providing space and infrastructure for the childcare facility.
