India, May 6 -- A division bench of the Delhi high court on Tuesday stayed till May 23, a single judge's verdict passing interim order against music director AR Rahman in a copyright infringement suit filed by classical singer Ustad Faiyaz Wasifuddin Dagar, over the song composition "Veera Raja Veera" for Tamil movie Ponniyin Selvan 2 (PS2), asserting that the song has been in public domain since 2023.

A bench of justices C Hari Shankar and Ajay Digpaul, however, directed the music director to deposit Rs.2 crore with the high court's registry in compliance of single judge's order within ten days.

"Given the nature of the dispute, we list for disposal in the supplementary list at 2:30pm on May 23. As the subject matter of the copyright h...