My father is income tax assessee. He filed his return for the assessment year 2019-20 which was promptly processed by the Tax Department and intimation of initiation of refund process was also received by him .Refund due to him got credited in his savings bank account in December, 2019.
In February, 2020 SMS was received from SBI informing the credit of Tax refund . As I gather the Tax Department has outsourced issue of refunds to SBI . In the instant case refund was issued in reasonable time by SBI in December, 2019 but SMS pertaining to its release was sent after lapse of almost two months in Feb., 2020 which only created confusion.