Jalandhar, Feb. 17 -- A city-based couple's claim of a Rs.19.10-lakh daylight robbery outside a bank in Jalandhar's Urban Estate has turned out to be an insurance fraud conspiracy, with police stating that the "victims" themselves plotted the entire crime.

Having apprehended the hired "snatchers", police are now on the trail of the husband-wife duo who have been booked for staging the February 6 robbery in a bid to claim insurance money against their business income.

Giving details, additional deputy commissioner of police Harinder Singh Gill said the couple, Priya and her husband Ramanand, who run an artificial jewellery shop, had insured their business earnings and planned to pass off the "snatched" cash as shop income in a bid to cla...