India, Oct. 15 -- The father of the 23-year-old medical student raped in a forested area near her college campus in West Bengal's Durgapur on Wednesday asked West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to forgive him for his sharp criticism, saying the only thing that mattered to him was his daughter's life.

"If I have made any comment, then I seek Mamata Banerjee's forgiveness.. The police carried out an investigation and arrested the suspects," he told reporters on Wednesday after the police arrested the sixth suspect, his daughter's classmate, who was remanded in police custody for seven days by a court.

"The only thing that matters to me is my daughter's life," her father said on Wednesday.

The woman, a resident of Jaleshwar in Odis...