A primary school teacher who was dismissed in 2019 for being absent for 1,535 days due to water phobia has now been reinstated to the teaching service.

This comes after the Ipoh High Court judge K Muniandy allowed a judicial review application filed by Yahaya Wahi, 44, to quash his dismissal and be reinstated as a teacher at any other school which is reachable via a land route.

The science and mathematics teacher...