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Gurugram Bust Exposes Counterfeit Mounjaro Operation With Suspected China Link

The case spotlights the health risk from fake weight-loss injections sold through online marketplaces.

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.