**Cow regarded as ‘mother of the world’: Gandhinagar court sentences three to life
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A Gandhinagar court has sentenced three men from Ahmedabad to life imprisonment in a cow slaughter case involving 277 kg of meat, confirmed to be beef. 

The court cited Manusmriti and Hindu scriptures in its order, describing the cow as the “_mother of the world_”. The convicts were also fined ₹3 lakh under the Gujarat Animal Preservation Act.