India, April 28 -- A couple of minutes on a livestream is all it took to turn his life upside down. In a now viral video, YouTuber-vlogger Vitaly lured US-based entrepreneur Akash Singhania into a sting operation. He was declared a 'pedophile' even before he could process what was happening. Vitaly had to apologise later when proved wrong.

But it was too little too late. In a video chat with HT City from US, Akash tells his side of the story:

As millions of people do every single day, I was talking to someone on a dating app. We agreed to meet consensually, and I had no reason to assume anything was out of the ordinary. You need to verify your age on these apps. Her job was to lure people into Snapchat, tell them her fake age (as a mino...