India, Dec. 28 -- Four officers of the Gurugram police's Crime Branch, posted with the Farrukhnagar unit, were booked for murder on Saturday over the suspected custodial death of a man from Rajasthan, who was arrested on charges of facilitating a vehicle theft, police said. A judicial inquiry has also been initiated into the custodial death.

Family members of the deceased, Mohammad Asif, 22, of Rampura in Bhiwadi of Rajasthan, said he was assaulted mercilessly for refusing to pay the officers a bribe of Rs.4 lakh. They alleged that the officers had threatened to torture him if he did not pay them, when they apprehended him from Khairtha-Tijara on December 24.

However, police said Asif died by suicide. They said he was arrested and taken...