Social media platform X’s Global Government Affairs in India on Friday.

The account was “withheld in [India] in response to a legal demand”, said the webpage.

This came a day after X said, using the account, that it had started more than 8,000 accounts in India after receiving orders from the Union government.

The blocking had started amid between India and Pakistan after the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22.

In a statement, X’s Global Government Affairs unit had said on Thursday that the platform had received orders from the Indian government requiring it to block the accounts, “subject to potential penalties including significant fines and imprisonment of the company's local employees”.

The orders included demands to block access in India to accounts belonging to international news organisations and prominent X users, the statement added.

“In most cases, the Indian government has not specified which posts from an account have violated India’s local laws,” it said. “For a significant number of accounts, we did not receive any evidence or justification to block the accounts.”

The billionaire Elon Musk-led social media platform said that it would withhold the specified accounts in India alone to comply with the orders.

“However, we disagree with the Indian government’s demands,” the platform had said. “Blocking entire...