The Pinarayi Vijayan government on Tuesday suffered a huge setback when the apex court upheld the verdict of the Kerala High Court's division bench to hand over the probe into the murder of two Youth Congress workers to the CBI. The Kerala High Court's single judge bench and then a division bench ruled in favour for a CBI probe and this was contested by the Vijayan government in the Supreme Court. The family members of the victims and the Congress have been demanding a CBI probe from the outset, saying that the police had failed to arrest the real accused, who, according to them, are senior CPI-M leaders in Kasargode who had conspired to eliminate the two young Congress workers. The Vijayan government had come under huge fire from various quarters after they decided to approach the division bench against the single judge bench verdict. The gruesome murder took place on February 17 last year. (IANS)