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'''Jan Sangharsh Manch''' is a voluntary civil rights organisation established in [[Gujarat]], [[India]].<ref name="Times of India - 5 September 2013 - Jan Sangharsh Manch demands Modi's arrest, President's rule">{{cite news|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-05/ahmedabad/41800260_1_fake-encounter-cases-sadiq-jamal-mehtar-shabbir-jamal|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130913085548/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-09-05/ahmedabad/41800260_1_fake-encounter-cases-sadiq-jamal-mehtar-shabbir-jamal|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 September 2013|title=Jan Sangharsh Manch demands Modi's arrest, President's rule|date=5 September 2013|work=[[The Times of India]]|publisher=[[The Times Group]]|accessdate=28 September 2013}}</ref> It was founded by [[Mukul Sinha]],<ref name="India Today - 29 Aug 2013 - 2002 Gujarat riots: 32 convicted, 29 acquitted in Naroda Patiya case">{{cite news|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/naroda-patiya-verdict-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel/1/215237.html|title=2002 Gujarat riots: 32 convicted, 29 acquitted in Naroda Patiya case|date=29 August 2012|work=[[India Today]]|publisher=[[Living Media]]|accessdate=28 September 2013}}</ref> lawyer and trade union leader, and his wife Nirjhari Sinha, human rights activist, parents of [[Alt News]] founder Pratik Sinha. The group represented the [[2002 Gujarat violence]] victims and legally fought the Gujarat state government,<ref name="The Economic Times - 8 September 2013 - Narendra Modi still in PM race despite Vanzara letter bomb">{{cite news|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/narendra-modi-still-in-pm-race-despite-vanzara-letter-bomb/articleshow/22398659.cms|title=Narendra Modi still in PM race despite Vanzara letter bomb|last=Dutta|first=Vishal|date=8 September 2013|work=[[The Economic Times]]|publisher=[[The Times Group]]|accessdate=28 September 2013}}</ref> in the [[Nanavati-Mehta Commission|Shah-Nanavati inquiry]].<ref name="The Hindu - 2 July 2011 - Destruction of records: Jan Sangharsh Manch planning to move court">{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/destruction-of-records-jan-sangharsh-manch-planning-to-move-court/article2152328.ece|title=Destruction of records: Jan Sangharsh Manch planning to move court|last=Dasgupta|first=Manas|date=2 July 2011|work=[[The Hindu]]|publisher=[[The Hindu Group]]|accessdate=28 September 2013}}</ref> 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.<ref name="mukul tehelka">{{cite web|last=Tehelka bureau|title=The Only Thing The Minorities Once Got Were Bullets. Now We Are Getting Some Faith Back|url=http://www.tehelka.com/the-only-thing-the-minorities-once-got-were-bullets-now-we-are-getting-some-faith-back/|publisher=Tehelka.com|accessdate=28 September 2013|date=10 March 2013}}</ref>

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