India, July 4 -- A rather simple plan by a private firm employee to stage a robbery and make a quick Rs.13 lakh in Delhi fell flat as the police cracked the case within 10 hours. His friend, who played the 'robber', and he have both been arrested.

Subhash Chand, 22, works as an accountant at a trading company and manages banking work for them. On July 3, he had gone to a bank in West Delhi to withdraw money for his employers. His plan, with his friend Vijaypal, 24, was to claim that he was robbed.

He called the Moti Nagar police station that morning to say he had been robbed by six men who waylaid him on three bikes on a flyover. He said he was stabbed too.

When police assessed the CCTV footage of the area, they could not any related m...