New Delhi police bust Harry Potter piracy ring

Police raided a printing house in New Delhi and seized 8,000 illegal copies of the latest Harry Potter best-seller, officials said today.

Three men were arrested on Sunday after police, acting on a tip, raided a printing house in a north-eastern suburb of the Indian capital and found 2,700 freshly printed copies of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, said RL Meena, deputy commissioner of police.