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. The group has definitively fought to expose the complicity of the current Gujarat Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party Prime Ministerial candidate 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 doggedly fought for justice to the families of the victims in the fake encounter cases and exposed the vacuous claims dished out by 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 over the investigation from the Gujarat police to the Central Bureau of Investigation. This set the 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]

Jan Sangharsh Manch also defended those accused in the Godhra Train incident

References

  1. ↑ "Jan Sangharsh Manch demands Modi's arrest, President's rule". The Times of India (The Times Group). 5 September 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  2. ↑ "2002 Gujarat riots: 32 convicted, 29 acquitted in Naroda Patiya case". India Today (Living Media). 29 August 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  3. ↑ Dutta, Vishal (8 September 2013). "Narendra Modi still in PM race despite Vanzara letter bomb". The Economic Times (The Times Group). Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  4. ↑ Dasgupta, Manas (2 July 2011). "Destruction of records: Jan Sangharsh Manch planning to move court". The Hindu (The Hindu Group). Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  5. ↑ Tehelka bureau (10 March 2013). "‘The Only Thing The Minorities Once Got Were Bullets. Now We Are Getting Some Faith Back’". Tehelka.com. Retrieved 28 September 2013.


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