India, Oct. 26 -- In a relief to former Keralam Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his kin, the Kerala High Court on Monday stayed a single-judge order directing the registration of an FIR against them in the alleged CMRL bribery case.

A bench of Justices K Natarajan and Johnson John also kept in abeyance the FIRs registered by the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) and the probe by the agency in the cases till further orders on the appeals filed by Vijayan and others against the single-judge order.

The bench also admitted their appeals against the single-judge order, saying the matter requires detailed consideration and listed the matter for hearing after four weeks.

The order came on the appeals moved by Vijayan, his daught...