Chhota Rajan taken to AIIMS for nose surgery

Gangster Chhota Rajan

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New Delhi: Underworld don Chhota Rajan was taken to AIIMS here for a medical surgery, prison officials said on Friday.

Sharing details, the officials said that he was taken to AIIMS on Thursday for a minor nose operation.

The surgery was advised by the doctors and he is likely to be brought back to Tihar Jail after his operation, said a senior prison officer.

He will be kept in prison hospital under doctors' observation.

Security has been tightened in and around the hospital as a precautionary measure.