India, Oct. 27 -- The Kerala high court on Monday stayed the FIR and further investigation by the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) against former chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, his daughter Veena T and son-in-law, CPI(M) MLA PA Mohammed Riyas, in the Cochin Minerals and Rutile Limited (CMRL) monthly payoffs case.

A division bench of Justices K Natarajan and Johnson John passed the interim order while hearing appeals against an earlier single-judge ruling directing registration of a corruption case and a Vigilance probe.

The Supreme Court had earlier stayed the FIR for a week, allowing Vijayan and the others to approach the High Court again.

"All four appeals are hereby admitted. Consequently, the judgment of the single jud...