Will sue govt for 'unlawful house arrest': J&K Cong leader Saifuddin Soz

He said the government has resorted to "falsehood as it had unlawfully incarcerated me since August 5, 2019"

Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Saifuddin Soz on Thursday said he would sue the government for his "unlawful house arrest" since August 5 last year, when the Centre revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, and termed the government's response in the Supreme Court that he was not under detention as "falsehood".

"I take a strong exception to the government stand before the Supreme Court that I had neither been put under house arrest nor had any restrictions been imposed on me since August 5, 2019," Soz said in a statement here.

He said the government has