This is the story of most of us looks like.
Attended interview at Indian passport seva kendra on 14th Dec and still waiting to see the response coming to CBP. Raised grievance with passport portal received a reply like this:
"Application Granted on pre police verification basis and GEP Clearance Requests have been sent to MHA (through Interface) and MoF (through Email). . ok"

Not sure why it said pre police since my police verification and CID verification were all completed before I left India. Not sure what next and how long