Eight members of a gang were arrested on Friday for allegedly cheating ICICI Bank customers of around Rs 1 crore over a couple of years with cloned debit cards or by impersonating bank officials to get account details.

Deoghar SP Piyush Pandey said three cyber criminals, Ajit Mandal, Chetalal Mandal and Shamim Akhtar were first arrested with the help of the police’s technical cell. Based on their interrogation, raids were carried out at places in Deoghar and five others, Raju Mandal, Mukesh Mandal, Krishna Yadav, Lallu Kumar and Dinesh Kumar, were arrested.

As many as 29 mobiles, a laptop, 15 SIM cards, 53 genuine debit cards of various banks, 21 blank debit cards that they had faked, a card cloning machine, several passbooks and cash worth Rs 1.20 lakh were found on them.

The ICICI Bank, in a statement, said that customers would suffer no loss and the cards that had allegedly been cloned had been blocked.