FIR against remand home staffer for thrashing children

THANE: Police have registered an FIR against a 56-year-old employee of a children's remand home in Maharashtra's Thane district for allegedly thrashing three minor inmates, an official here said.

The accused allegedly hit the three children, aged 9 and 11, with a steel scale used in lab experiments on January 17 as they were playing in a hall of the remand home, the official said on Tuesday.