India, Aug. 6 -- An Indian-origin professor at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) was caught in a vigilante sting operation while allegedly trying to meet a 14-year-old boy for sex. The sting operation was coordinated by California-based advocacy group People vs Predators.

Footage that has been widely shared on social media shows members of the group confronting the professor at a supermarket, where he had apparently planned to meet the 14-year-old. The professor did not realise he had been speaking to activists pretending to be the teenager on the Grindr app. He looked visibly shaken when confronted and claimed to feel "dreadful" about the situation.

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