During last Covid lockdown passports were held by New Delhi Visa Office for Months... When it says "delayed" means that due to them not working during this curfew the overall process time will be delayed. Don't expect them to be working when they say there offices are closed. They were hardly working with reduced staff when it was all open..Read the update on the vfs website, it says processing and return will be delayed.
But the submission is suspended
And also, they would not want to sit on the passports that are already there, no one would want that to take care of passports for no reasons if counterfoil is already generated