Kuno national park: Inquiry against Indian man seen giving water to cheetahs in viral video

The footage shows a female cheetah and her four cubs walk up to the pan and start drinking from it.

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The man, a driver at the sanctuary, violated instructions which say only authorised personnel can go near the big cats, park officials told PTI news agency.

Cheetahs were declared extinct in India in 1952, the only large mammal to become extinct since the country's independence.

They were reintroduced in Kuno in 2022 as part of an ambitious plan to repopulate the species.

The incident came to light on Sunday, when a video of the man feeding water to the big cats began circulating online.