New Delhi, Feb. 16 -- The Delhi High Court has granted an ex-parte ad-interim injunction in favour of Saregama India Limited, restraining noted music composer Ilaiyaraaja from exploiting or licensing certain copyrighted sound recordings and musical works claimed by the company.

The order was passed by Justice Tushar Rao Gedela on February 13, 2026, while hearing a commercial suit filed by the music label.

Saregama told the Court that it owns copyrights in a large catalogue of film music and sound recordings across several Indian languages, based on assignment agreements executed with film producers between 1976 and 2001.

According to the company, these agreements vested exclusive, worldwide, and perpetual rights in it to reproduce, lic...