New Delhi, May 29 -- Vantara has welcomed a comprehensive and emphatic order of the Supreme Court of India that it says brings final closure to a prolonged campaign of allegations concerning its wildlife rescue, rehabilitation and conservation work, and affirms the lawful and ethical foundation of everything Vantara does.

A Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and N.V. Anjaria dismissed a fresh application that sought to reopen matters already examined in exhaustive detail by a high-powered Special Investigation Team.

The SIT, constituted by the Supreme Court itself, was presided over by a former Judge of the Supreme Court and comprised a former Chief Justice of a High Court, a former Commissioner of Police and a senior Customs offic...