Amrit Baishya was a brilliant student at the Kendriya Vidyalaya he studied in at Noonmati in Guwahati. The only son in a middle-class family, he was highly pampered, every wish of his fulfilled as soon as he uttered it. That his father ran a successful travel agency business and mother worked as a government school teacher also helped. Being among the toppers in every class, he also gave his parents no reason to complain. Nothing seemed off limits, even drinking with senior school students when he was in Class 10. When his parents did intervene, he would flaunt his marksheet at them.
He was in Class 11 in 2010 when Amrit decided it was time to graduate to something bigger. He first experimented with drugs out of the Rs 500 he had taken from his parents to buy a book. Experimentation soon gave way to addiction, and the high scores to a downhill journey away from classrooms and in the dark alleys of Guwahati. Several temporary stints at rehabilitation centres followed, to no avail. Eventually, tired of his constant demand for money, stealing and uncontrollable aggression, Amrit's parents threw him out of their house on June 24, 2017.
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