Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh on Thursday transferred the case of 26-year-old's death after being allegedly beaten up by an officer at RCF police station in Chembur, to the Crime Branch.

Mid-day on Thursday reported that two cops picked up Sohail Sheikh and his uncle Tayyab Mansoor Sheikh from the latter's home on Tuesday afternoon. At the police station, the officer thrash thrashed them with a belt, following which Sohail, a hypertension patient, collapsed and died the next day at a hospital. Mansoor had also alleged that the officer threatened to book him and Sohail in a fake drugs case if they didn't give him Rs 2.5 lakh. The officer allegedly let them go after taking a bribe of Rs 50,000.