Jan Sangharsh Manch is a voluntary civil rights organisation established in Gujarat, India. It was founded by Mukul Sinha, 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. Jan Sangharsh Manch represented victims of the 2002 Gujarat violence in the Shah-Nanavati inquiry. 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.
Jan Sangharsh Manch also defended those accused in the Godhra Train incident