ahmedabad a college principal a resident of navrangpura was cheated of rs 45000 by a man who posed as an employee of an animal welfare trust when the principal called a helpline to rescue a sick stray puppy near his housein his fir with gujarat university police hemant chaubey a resident of teachers staff quarters behind the girls hostel of gujarat university stated that he has been principal at swarnim college for seven yearson january 14 when chaubey and his wife were home they saw a puppy that was sick chaubeys wife wanted to help it and she searched google for animal help centresshe found a website at the url wwwpetshelplinecoin and a helpline number with it when my wife called the helpline a man answered the call and began speaking to my wife in hindi he told my wife that she would need to pay rs 10 via a hyperlink that would be sent to her phone so that an animal rescue van could be sent there to help the puppy chaubey stated in the firshe clicked the link and paid the money but the man called chaubeys wife and told her that no transaction had taken place and then disconnected the call after a while she received text messages showing that rs 44997 had been debited from her bank account in four transactionschaubey then approached cyber crime police station from where he was given a ticket number to lodge a complaint oneandahalf month later gujarat university police registered a complaint for breach of trust and cheating under ipc along with charges under the information technology act