British Columbia's police complaint commissioner will challenge a B.C. Supreme Court order that blocked a public hearing into a case in which two Vancouver police officers mistakenly beat an innocent man.

Yao Wei Wu sustained facial injuries in January 2010 when two officers responded to a domestic violence call, but violently took down the wrong man.

The Vancouver police department later apologized. Two constables were cleared in an external investigation by the Delta Police Department.

"I was beaten by the police for no reason at the door of my home," Wu responded, in a statement.

"The investigation report says that the police had reason to beat me . . . that I fell and injured my eye [but] this is absolutely a distortion of the facts."

Police Complaint Commissioner Stan Lowe said there were serious flaws in the investigation and called for a public inquiry.

But the two officers, constables Bryan London and Nicholas Florkow, applied to the B.C. Supreme Court to shut the hearing down. In a Jan. 26 order, Justice D. Allan Betton quashed the scheduled hearing, saying Lowe was stepping outside his bounds.

In a statement, deputy police complaint commissioner Rollie Woods said Lowe has filed a notice in the B.C. Court of Appeal asking for Betton's order to be overturned. Woods reportedly said that, in the commissioner's view, Betton's ruling could set a precedent that hinders the office's mandate.