New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- The Supreme Court has reinstated the interim protection from arrest for Wildlife SOS co-founder and CEO Kartick Satyanarayan in an alleged leopard poaching case.

A bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Atul S Chandurkar directed Satyanarayan to appear before the forest authorities at 11 am on September 28 and fully cooperate with the investigation.

The bench passed the order while hearing Satyanarayan's challenge to a Madhya Pradesh High Court order which had withdrawn the protection earlier granted to him.

"Without expressing any opinion on merits, we dispose of the Special Leave Petition(s) with the direction that the order passed by the High Court on September 2 in .shall continue to hold field. till disposal of ...