Following Salim Merchant’s announcement over the release of Sidhu Moose Wala’s song Jaandi Vaar on Friday, the late singer’s family instituted a suit for permanent injunction against Salim-Sulaiman and their company, seeking restraint on the release of the song. On Monday, a Mansa (Punjab) court gave an ex-parte ad-interim order restraining the release of Jaandi Vaar. Salim, who had made the announcement on his Insta handle, had also said that the song would be available as NFT for the public on a digital platform.

Samarjit Patnaik, partner at Karanjawala & Co, the law firm that is representing Moose Wala’s family in the matter told us, “The Hon’ble Court has restrained the song’s release along with a direction restraining them from using, broadcasting, releasing, uploading, streaming the song in any manner. The music producers do not have the rights to release Moose Wala's song just because the recording was done in the studio where they were present.”

Punjabi music producer Bunty Bains, who was managing Sidhu’s releases with him, said, “We have been requesting Mr Merchant not to release Sidhu’s song or sell his e-signatures, merchandise and NFTs without obtaining the license and permission from his family. But this announcement on Friday by Salim on his Instagram handle caught us by surprise. Then too we requested him against doing so, but he didn’t take down the announcement for the song and lured Sidhu’s fans to buy unlicensed NFT’s, E-signatures and merchandise in Sidhu’s name. We want this case to be exemplary for others too who are contemplating leaking or releasing Sidhu’s music without his family’s permission. We are keeping tabs on all these activities and want those who violate this to be cognizant of this fact.”

Meanwhile, Salim posted an update on his Insta handle, saying, “We have decided to defer the release of Jaandi Vaar and will finalise the next release date after taking the blessings of Sidhu’s parents.”