Revised return and defective return

This discussion addresses a common tax query regarding the interplay between filing a revised Income Tax Return (ITR) and receiving a notice for a defective original return. The user filed an initial return with an incorrect HRA calculation, later filed a revised return, and then received a notice stating the first return was defective. The core question is what happens now, especially when the revised return was filed before the defective notice was received. The advice given highlights the importance of correctly referencing the original ITR details in the revised filing and stresses that revised and defective returns are distinct processes.