The university's decision followed a 'symbolic helmet day' last week on the initiative of District Collector Rajesh Deshmukh and the traffic police's three-day campaign to penalise violators.
According to his friends, Shubham was born into a poor farming family in the drought-prone Solapur district, where his artistic aspirations were suppressed and ridiculed.
The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Monday organized a protest at the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) and breaks glass door amid the protest.