Jan Sangharsh Manch

Jan Sangharsh Manch is a voluntary civil rights organisation established in Gujarat, India.[1] It was founded by Mukul Sinha,[2] Senior Advocate and Trade Union Leader and his wife Nirjhari Sinha, human rights activist, parents of AltNews founder Pratik Sinha. The group has fought to expose the complicity of the former Gujarat Chief Minister and current Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and his ministers and police in the communal pogrom of 2002. Their judicial struggle has also exposed the complicity of the cabinet minister Amit Shah in the fake encounters from 2002-2007, thereby pointing to the Modi government's hand in these murders.[3] Jan Sangharsh Manch represented victims of the 2002 Gujarat violence in the Shah-Nanavati inquiry.[4] The organisation has also fought for justice to the families of the victims in the fake encounter cases and exposed claims of the police and Modi's government branding them as terrorists to the public. The legal interventions by the organisation led the Supreme Court in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case to pass the investigation from the Gujarat police to the Central Bureau of Investigation. This set a precedent as all the other cases taken up by JSM were handed over to the CBI and the investigation in all these cases established them as extrajudicial killings.[5]