Dutee Chand, champion sprinter from Odisha and one athlete who is expected to do well at the Tokyo Olympics 2020, has come out as being in a relationship with a woman. Dutee has said that she and her partner want to settle down eventually.

The athlete said that she was emboldened by the Supreme Court's ( SC) verdict of legalising gay consensual sex amongst adults. The last statement is an indicator of the huge ramifications this order must have had.