Editing Diminished responsibility (section)

==India==
[[Supreme Court of India]] bench headed by [[Ranjan Gogoi|Justice Gogoi]]  in a review petition upheld the principle of Diminished responsibility in the [[2000 Dharmapuri bus burning]] and commuted to life imprisonment the death penalty given by the [[Salem district|Salem district court]] and upheld by the [[Madras High Court]] and by another [[Supreme Court of India|Supreme Court]]  bench to three [[AIADMK]] party activists who had a set on fire a fully occupied bus with 44 girls and 2 lecturers of the [[Tamil Nadu Agricultural University]] on an educational tour to protest [[Jayalalithaa]]'s conviction in [[Pleasant Stay hotel case]] in this three college girls were burnt alive and 16 college girls suffered burn injuries were acting on mob frenzy and setting a legal precedent.<ref name="diminished">{{cite web | url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/SC-commutes-death-penalty-of-Dharmapuri-bus-burning-convicts-to-life/article14149682.ece | title=SC commutes death penalty of Dharmapuri bus burning convicts to life | newspaper=The Hindu | date=11 March 2016 | access-date=9 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.in/suchitra-vijayan/dharmapuri-bus-burning-a-_b_9556544.html | title=Wait, Murderous Bus-Burning AIADMK Members Were 'Victims' Of Mob-Think? The Apex Court Thinks So | work=Huffington Post | first=Suchitra | last=Vijayan | date=15 July 2016 | access-date=9 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tracking-indian-communities/sc-ruling-on-dharmapuri-bus-burning-a-misinterpretation/ | title=SC ruling on Dharmapuri bus burning a misinterpretation | newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |first=K M |last=Vijayan | date=23 March 2016 | access-date=9 July 2018}}</ref>