The Court of Appeal today upheld a 10-year jail sentence and two strokes of the cane imposed on a warden of a tahfiz education centre convicted of two counts of physical sexual assault on a male student, five years ago.

A three-judge panel led by Azman Abdullah unanimously dismissed the appeal by Tengku Khaireel Tengku Wahab, 32, against the conviction and sentence handed down by the Kuantan High Court on Oct 17, 2023.