A 19-year-old first-year agriculture student was among four suspected persons arrested from the site of a joint operation on December 23 in the forests of Tekameta in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh, where two Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres were killed and one ‘militia’ member was injured, reports The Times of India on December 25. The student and three others, including two women cadres aged 21 and 23, are Tekameta natives herded by the Maoists to guard their camp as sentries and spotters, said sources from Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli Police whose elite C-60 commandos carried out the operation 10 kilometres into Chhattisgarh. “The two women and the college student were tasked with the responsibility of acting as sentries and also to spot security forces to alert the Maoist cadres,” said the source.