in an allwoman institute to spend time together they joined a upsc exam preparatory class we would go there three times a week those three hours were the only time i would not do drugs he saysbefore joining college the youth and his friends drove to malana bought its infamous charas in bulk and sold it in chandigarh in college too we had started staying aloof we would not attend classes used the drug money to buy heroin and smoke it he says i got my rich friends hooked to heroin toohe does not remember the quantity of charas he boughthe says he saw someone injecting heroin for the first time at a hostel in panjab university a friend who used to do heroin took him there to meet a man callled velly peer he took me to shahimajra village in mohali where three brothers from amritsar used to sell heroin they were smugglers i became friends with velly by now i had stopped hanging out with friends who used to do heroin my girlfriend started to get worried but i told her i would quit it one day he addshe still remembers the day he first injected it sometime in 2016 i had a fight with my girlfriend and drove to the peddlers house he saysfirst whiffin november 2016 when the centre demonetized rs 500 and rs 1000 notes the youths friends saw him struggling to arrange cash for heroin they told my parents who took me to a clinic in panchkula i was prescribed a medicine but i would trick my parents into believing i had it but would just hide it under my tongue and spit it out he saysduring this time the elder brother of his childhood friend died due to drug overdose i felt really sad at the time and was in disbelief he says once my parents started thinking i am fine they started letting me go first i started meeting the friends i used to smoke charas with and then went to those i used to do heroin with my old friends tried to stop me from doing heroin and even told my girlfriend but i stopped talking to them he adds i havent spoken to them sincebut things only worsened the youth needed heroin worth rs 4000 a day he started borrowing from his girlfriend who was also from a welloff family and even stole gold from his own house i once took my college fee and even that of my girlfriends by telling her i would deposit it and instead used it to buy heroin i mortgaged my car i had become a slave to heroin no one trusted me i met only those people who could give me heroin he sayshe also started getting abusive with his girlfriend she would stop me from doing it when we would be going to tuition but i would get violent in 2017 my girlfriend got pregnant i was 18 then i took rs