Reports Uttar Pradesh: Vice Chancellor Professor Hareram Tripathi and his wife based in Cavikulgur Kalidas Sanskrit University lost their lives in a traffic accident in the Mau district in Uttar Pradesh.
The tragic incident took place on Saturday morning in the Dohrighat police station in Mau when their car collided with a trailer parked on the road.
Another police superintendent (ASP) ANOOP Kumar said that in the village of Kusma on the highway Gorakhpur-Varanasi in the area of the Dohrighat police station, their car collided with a parked trailer.
Tripathi (58) and his wife, Badami Devi (56), who were in the car, died on the spot, added Kumar.
In the incident, their driver Vibhav Misra (35) was seriously injured.
Asp Kumar said the driver was sent to the hospital for treatment.
The couple went from Varanasi to their village in the Kushinagar district.
Previously, Tripathi was vice -chairman of Chancellor Sampurnanand Sanskrit University in Varanasi.
In his statement, the spokesman of the Cavicula of Kalidas Sanskrit University said that prof. Tripathi and his wife were on their way to their native place in Kushinagar when there was an accident. The death of the couple thrust fire for the university and the academic circle.
In a contribution on the Social Media Platform X Governor Radhakrishnan said he was deeply painful to learn about the death of Prof Tripathi and his wife.
“Prof Tripathi was a significant Sanskrit scholar, researcher and popular teacher. During his time, he worked with a determination for the promotion and dissemination of the Sanskrit language. With his extinction we lost a dedicated researcher and a capable manager who worked tirelessly for Sanskrit,” he said.
CM Fadnavis said Prof Tripathi was known as a scholar of Indian philosophy and jurisprudence.
“He wrote more than 40 books in conducting research into various subjects. He was honored with numerous awards such as Maharshi Badarayan President Award, Shankar Vedanta Award and Panini Samman. He devoted all his life to Sanskrit,” said X.
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