Mukul Sinha, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mukul Sinha

Date of Birth: 10-Feb-1951

Place of Birth: Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Date of Death: 12-May-2014

Profession: lawyer, physicist, human rights activist

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Mukul Sinha (1951–2014) was a human rights activist and a lawyer at the Gujarat High Court at Ahmedabad, India.
He was an active trade union leader and a trained physicist.
He legally represented the families of the individuals who were killed in "fake encounters" in Gujarat following the 2002 riots and in Manipur, in which he secured convictions of the politicians and police officers involved.
Along with his wife Nirjhari Sinha, he founded and served as the president of Jan Sangharsh Manch (trans.
People's Struggle Forum), an independent civil rights organization with the aim of addressing issues of labour and workers rights.
He was also a vocal critic of erstwhile Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.