National Payments Corporation of India [NPCI] — Undue delay in Validating the legal heir's bank account by NPCI for Income Tax refund .

The required papers for claim of refund for PAN : AABPL4456A for the assessment year 2005-06 granted by the ITO non-corporate ward 11 (3) Chennai (order dated 30.06.2021 ) was filed on 12.10.2021 by the legal heir, On following up with the CPC, we came to know that the refund been put on hold and the bank details have been sent for validation to NPCI during January 2022 . A period of 6 months has elapsed but refund is still not received . We request the NPCI inform the current status to us and to process and validate the legal heir s bank account as quick as possible to enable us to receive the refund .