The accused's lawyers told the court they were falsely implicated because they were members of a trade union working to improve workers' conditions (Image generated using AI). A special court in Mumbai Tuesday rejected the discharge plea of an alleged CPI (Maoist) operative and directed the framing of charges under the anti-terror Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) against eight men. The accused, including founding members of the Mumbai Electric Employees Union, were arrested in 2018 on allegations of raising funds for the banned organisation. Their lawyers told the court they were falsely implicated because they were members of a trade union working to improve workers’ conditions. The court rejected the discharge plea of Saidulu Singapanga, observing that the material on record prima facie discloses his involvement in the activities of CPI (Maoist). “There are certain documents which specifically denote that the applicant is not only a member of banned organisation i.e.…