Kolkata gangrape accused Monojit Mishra's father's painful first words: ‘Worked very hard to make him a lawyer. But…’

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 bowed. 

“He is my son. I worked very hard to make him a lawyer. But I must say, if the judiciary, after seeing all the evidence, finds him to be guilty, he should be given the toughest punishment, the maximum punishment. I will accept it with my head bowed,” he told IE.

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