NEW DELHI, OCT 18: The story of Seelampur is filled with poverty, violence, filth and memories of riots. Now the Molotov cocktail of one of Delhi's most volatile and poorest areas has another deadly ingredient: Drugs.The backyard of Seelampur's Sulabh Shouchalay is crowded even on a Sunday evening. Addicts sit in about four groups all over the place. Most of them are young boys - the future of Seelampur.One of them wants to be photographed but demands Rs 50. ``I will snatch your camera if you don't pay me,'' he says. Bunty is one of the several youngsters who are addicted to smack in Seelampur. He says nothing in response to questions except that he started a couple of years ago.However, his friend Sanjay, 15, (name changed) says there are children younger than him who are addicted to smack in Seelampur. Sanjay who is now recovering in the de-addiction centre at Shahdara along with his elder brother Nitin, started two years ago. He worked in a shop where a colleague, another young boy, gave himsmack till he wanted more of it.Sanjay, who lives in Janata Colony in Seelampur, is in tears as he says that he used to steal and pick pockets to make enough money to buy smack. ``I used to spend about Rs 400 on it,'' he says. He pleaded with doctors in Shahdara till they agreed to admit him there.``He would vanish for months,'' his brother, the eldest of the 12 siblings, says. Sanjay says he used to get caught by the police for picking pockets. ``But they let us off if we paid some money,'' he says.Sanjay started when he was barely 13. He says there are even younger children who are using smack in Seelampur. ``I once saw a young boy barely nine or 10 with my son. I immediately asked Sanjay not to let the child use smack,'' says Sanjay's mother Meena.
