Shimla, April 28 -- The Himachal Pradesh High Court has dismissed a criminal revision petition filed by a woman accused in a blackmail and extortion case, upholding the charges framed against her by a trial court in Una and ruling that courts in Himachal Pradesh have the jurisdiction to try the matter.

Delivering the judgment, Justice Sandeep Sharma rejected the plea filed by Kuljit Kaur alias Shallu, who had challenged an order dated January 20, 2025, passed by the Additional Sessions Judge-I, Una, framing charges against her under Sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 384 (extortion) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC.

The case stems from an FIR registered in December 2020 at Police Station Chintpurni in Una district, based on...