India, April 6 -- A video of a forest department driver offering water to thirsty cheetahs in Madhya Pradesh has gone massively viral online. But what many saw as a heartwarming act of coexistence has landed the driver in trouble. According to a Times of India report, he has been suspended from his job after his video went viral.

Over the weekend, a video that emerged on social media showed a family of cheetahs lying in the shade of a tree. A villager, later identified as forest department driver Satyanarayan Gurjar, approached the cheetah family cautiously with a jerrycan of water in his hand.

Once he was a few feet away from the cheetahs, Gurjar stopped and poured water into a steel plate. "Come, come," some people off camera were hea...