LUCKNOW, Dec. 22 -- Sumaiya Rana, 45, national spokesperson of the Samajwadi Party and daughter of the late Urdu poet Munawwar Rana, has been served a preventive notice requiring her to furnish bonds worth Rs.5 lakh after police expressed apprehension of a possible breach of peace in the state capital.

The notice was issued on Saturday by the assistant commissioner of police-cum-executive magistrate, Qaiserbagh, under sections 126 and 135 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) in a case registered at Qaiserbagh police station.

Rana has been directed to appear before the ACP Qaiserbagh court on Monday and explain why she should not be bound down for one year to maintain peace and good behaviour by furnishing a personal bond of Rs...