Jalandhar: A teenager college student girl committed suicide by jumping before a train on Domoria Bridge on Thursday evening after she was reportedly photographed by a few photo journalists when she was accosted by police at a naka while she accompanied a boy in a car which had hit another car.

It seemed to be a case of over enthusiasm of police and photojournalists back firing as the naka was laid to check eve teasing and in the last few days Traffic police inspector Balwinder Kaur 's Nakas and her on the spot punishment to eve-teasers had been making almost daily news and providing good photo opportunity to jurnos. Commissioner of Police Gaurav Yadav has entrusted an enquiry to ADCP (Hq) Navjot Singh Mahal on the issue. It is learnt that Traffic police inspector Balwinder Kaur had had laid a naka near PCM SD College for Women to prevent eve teasing incidents. According to eyewitnesses after 2 PM a black car while trying to hurriedly escape the naka hit another car. A boy and a girl emerged from the car as the driver of the other car started making noise about the damage to his car police inspector started questioning the boy. However the photojournalists of a few vernacular dailies and camerapersons of local channels clicked the photographs of the girl also who was visibly upset over this. Sources said that she even threatened to commit suicide if her photographs would be carried but nobody took it seriously as taking photographs was a routine but this time a girl was also in the frame. The boy and girl left the spot after a compromise was struck between those driving the cars. At around 4 PM the girl, later identified as Shivali - student of BA first year and resident of Urban Estate Phase I committed suicide by jumping before a train. There was no trace of the boy later and it could not be known what happened between the two after they left the spot. Girl's brother reached the spot where her body was lying in the railway track but he was too shocked to speak anything. When asked Inspector Balwinder Kaur said that she was on a routine visit to prevent eve-teasing and intervened after she heard altercation over hitting of a car with another car. "I was trying to pacify both the sides and strike a compromise and I am not aware if any girl was there or anybody took photographs," she claimed later in the evening. A case under section 174 of CrPC was registered by Government Railway Police . GRP AIG Devinder Singh Garcha who also reached the place they would make amends in the case if they would receive any further complaint.

Meanwhile, a woman police officer placed under suspension and a probe has been ordered by the Punjab government in this case.