NTCA had on Sunday said media reports attributing the deaths of the big cats to factors such as radio collars were based on "speculation and hearsay, without scientific evidence"
A male cheetah that strayed out of the Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh last week has been rescued while it was about to cross over to a forest in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh and brought back to the park, an official said on Sunday.
Male cheetah Oban has once again strayed out of Kuno National Park in Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh, officials said on Monday, the development coming days after it had ventured out of the facility and was brought back post tranquilisation.
The last cheetah died in the country in 1947 in Koriya district in present day Chhattisgarh, which was earlier part of Madhya Pradesh, and the species was declared extinct from India in 1952.