New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- New Delhi: At one time, Texas was part of America's wild west, where a bullet separated the quick and the dead. These days, however, disputes in the largest state in the continental US are settled in court. Aside from that, however, the duels are just as vicious as they were in the 1800s.

A recent case epitomizes just how bitter things can get, with the two sides trading various charges, including theft, breach of contract, poaching, and moral turpitude, among other things.

These claims and counterclaims may seem like the fevered imaginings of a screenwriter scripting a Hollywood potboiler, but they are very real, and among the accusations IT services companies Cognizant and Infosys have flung against each other in...