New Delhi, Jan. 7 -- The ministry of electronics and information technology (Meity) has extended X's deadline by 48 hours after the platform cited employee holidays, a senior official told HT on Monday. X now has until 5pm on January 7 to respond to the ministry's demand for an action plan on Grok AI misuse. X requested the extension, citing two intervening holidays - for Christmas and New Year's Day - as the reason it needed additional time. Meity wrote to X on January 2, flagging what it called serious failures in preventing obscene and sexually explicit content generated using Grok. The ministry warned that failure to comply could lead to loss of Section 79 immunity and "strict legal consequences" against the platform, its responsible officers and users, without further notice. P4...