The Thane police have registered a case against three people for allegedly beating up a woman neighbour and her children after a petty fight in Thane, a police officer said on Tuesday.

The wife of one of the accused allegedly threw human excreta at the entrance of her woman neighbour’s house in Anjur Phata area on Sunday. When the woman objected to it, some of her neighbours allegedly slapped her and beat up her children, an officer from Narpoli police station said.