KOTA TINGGI: An assistant hostel warden of a private religious school has been remanded for four days to assist police in investigations into a case of assault involving an 11-year-old tahfiz student.
Magistrate Mazana Sinin issued the remand order, which expires this Wednesday, on the 29-year-old man, following an application by the police.
The suspect was detained at his house in Felda Lok Heng Barat here yesterday after the student’s mother lodged a police report.
The student, Mohamad Thaqif Amin Mohd Gadaffie, who was admitted to the Sultan Ismail Hospital (HSI) in Johor Bahru last Wednesday, claimed he was beaten by an assistant warden at the school.
Yesterday, Johor Health, Environment, Education and Information Committee chairman Ayub Rahmat was reported as saying that the boy’s legs had to be amputated to avoid infection and that he had slipped into a coma.