Thiruvananthapuram, Oct. 15 -- The Kerala high court on Thursday refused to allow CPI(M) leader Pinarayi Vijayan, his daughter Veena and son-in-law PA Mohammed Riyas to challenge a single-judge order directing the registration of FIRs against them in the Cochin Minerals and Rutile Limited (CMRL) payoffs case.

The division bench of Justices K Natarajan and Johnson John, which had reserved its verdict on Tuesday, had pondered the question of whether Vijayan and others could be granted permission to challenge the verdict in a case in which they were not parties.

A detailed court order is awaited.

The bench of Justice A Badharudeen on October 9 had allowed a petition filed by lawyer-activist KM Shajahan seeking directions to the Vigilance ...