Just in: The Supreme Court has dismissed a PIL against Kerala CM Oommen Chandy seeking to name him as an accused in the Palmolein scam.

Last month, a division bench of the Kerala High Court declared as null and void the observation made by a vigilance court against Chandy and asked it to complete a re-investigation into the palm oil import case in six weeks.

The High Court bench asked for the removal of the observation made by Vigilance Judge P.K. Haneefa, who rejected the vigilance report that gave a clean chit to the Chief Minister and ordered a re-investigation.

The high court had given a clean chit to Chandy in October.

The import of 15,000 tonnes of palm oil was undertaken in 1992. The case was registered in 1999 when the communists led by E.K. Nayanar were in power.

The vigilance department had earlier submitted a report that there was nothing that could indict Chandy in the case. Former Chief Minister K. Karunakaran, then food minister T.H. Mustafa and bureaucrats P.J. Thomas and Jiji Thompson were charged with causing a loss of Rs.2.32 crore by importing oil from Malaysia at an enhanced price.