New Delhi, June 28 -- Still coming to terms with the news of his son's arrest as a prime accused in Kolkata law college gangrape case, former Trinamool Congress student leader Monojit Mishra's father's first words were painful but rooted in reality.

"We stay in a 6 x 8 ft room. We worked so hard and rose from the lower strata of society to make him a lawyer. It is hard to believe that my son has done it," Monojit Mishra's father, who is a priest from Kalighat, told The Indian Express.

Two days after his son was arrested, along with three others, for raping and assaulting a 24-year-old female student of a law college in Kolkata, Mishra's father (name withheld on request), said he will accept the punishment given to his son with his head ...