BATHINDA, Feb. 18 -- The Bathinda police on Tuesday arrested an NRI couple for making a false complaint of loot of their 39 tola gold jewellery by armed men.

Identified as Sahil Singh and Rajinder Kaur, residents of Adelaide in Australia, the accused couple had claimed that a group of car-borne persons robbed them of their ornaments at gunpoint late Sunday night. They had told the police that the crime took place at Jaito bypass near Goniana in Bathinda district when they were returning from a wedding to their house at Chak Bakhtu.

Senior superintendent of police (SSP) Amneet Kondal said on Tuesday that a short video provided by the couple, in which a suspicious car was spotted, helped them in nailing the false statement of the NRI coup...