Publishers Battle Pirates in India With Little Success

Raids produce dozens of arrests but no convictions

By MARTHA ANN OVERLAND

New Delhi

In the early morning hours of March 10, 2003, private investigators fanned out across India's still-sleeping capital. Acting on a tip, three teams were tracking what they believed was a major pirated-books operation.

For several weeks they had been staking...

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