Overview
- Investigators say the crackdown, which began Saturday, April 18 with a vehicle stop in DLF Phase IV, led them to a Sector 62 flat used as a makeshift unit and to fake stock valued at about ₹70 lakh.
- Police arrested alleged mastermind Avi Sharma and aide Mujammil Khan after seizing injections and packaging that officers say were assembled with basic tools and 3D-printed boxes, labels and leaflets.
- Officials report suspected sourcing of peptides and other inputs from China via Alibaba, naming a supplier called Yengli, with invoices still under verification and seized samples now with a lab for analysis.
- Drugs Control officers flagged telltale signs of fakes such as off-shade colors, different fonts and typos, and they circulated the seized batch numbers to other states to check for wider distribution.
- Eli Lilly, which makes Mounjaro, welcomed the enforcement action, and the Indian Police Foundation offered pro bono forensic help as authorities probe online sales channels such as IndiaMART.