Overview

• Officers arrested Ritik alias "Bomb" (22) and Chandan (19) on October 2 at Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar after stopping a car missing a front number plate.
• Investigators say the pair funneled payments from fake loan apps and extortion into USDT by using UPI mule accounts and taking commissions on each conversion.
• Forensic checks point to Pakistani WhatsApp contacts, Binance-linked activity and crypto orders from Lahore and Karachi, according to police.
• The accused are linked to the Gogi–Sonu Kharkhari network and have prior cases including robbery and arms offenses, police records show.
• A court remanded both to five days’ custody as police pursue absconding associates, trace wallets and scrutinize UPI accounts tied to traders named by the suspects, including Rahul Gujjar, Yash and Akash.