Tip given by @pratiksh404
If you have input field which takes an array and you have to store it as a JSON, you can use $casts property in your model. Here images is a JSON attribute.
protected $casts = [ 'images' => 'array',];
So you can store it as a JSON, but when retrieved from DB, it can be used as an array.
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