Summary: ``The present study investigates various characteristics of conformal Ricci solitons with a Schouten--van Kampen connection. Characterizations are obtained when the potential vector field involves a torse-forming vector field. Moreover, applications related to submanifolds are also provided. Lastly, we provided an example of conformal Ricci solitons on a three-dimensional $f$-Kenmotsu manifold to validate our findings.''