Buyer deposited tds and also paid full sale money to seller, how to claim now? Please Advise?

As a buyer you had responsibility to deduct TDS from the agreed value and deposit it to treasury; and no seller can deny for the process. Moreover you cannot get refund of the amount unless the deal gets cancelled.

As you have already paid full amount to seller, its very difficult to get it back from seller, as the TDS amount will get adjusted against his capital gains tax liability.

Unless seller co-operates, only option is to drag him into court!!

thank you for the response and the details. I understand its very difficult and we have taken the risk of that amount. However the seller is currently co-operating and has agreed to help to get the refund in case the refund is available post all adjustments.

I do have another query now. Which site should we use to raise the refund request i.e. the TRACES website or INCOMETAXINDIA.GOV.IN website ???

Only by filing seller's IT return, for the relevant assessment year. (i.e. after April 2020)

But what about his tax liability over capital gain over the sale of the property?