Court allows Netflix to screen series on controversial Indian billionaires

Series documents the travails of beer tycoon Vijay Mallya, diamantaire Nirav Modi and Subrata Roy.

Netflix Inc. won the right to stream a series featuring Indian tycoons who ran into trouble with the law, a victory that may boost its efforts to offer more local content in a crucial emerging market.

A court in Mumbai allowed the American streaming giant to release a bulk of the episodes of its “Bad Boy Billionaires: India”-- a series that documents the travails of beer tycoon Vijay Mallya, diamantaire Nirav Modi and Subrata Roy, founder-owner of the realty-to-shadow financier group, Sahara India Pariwar. However, an episode on a software tycoon still faces challenge in another local court.

The win,