git clone fails with fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output

Question

I am getting a weird error while cloning a repo on my windows machine. it was working fine earlier

git clone https://gitlabe2.ext.net.com/Ns_DS/microservice.git -b ltems_feature
Cloning into 'microservice'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 290, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (290/290), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (173/173), done.
fatal: pack has bad object at offset 481775096: inflate returned -5
fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output

i am unable to understand what is causing this issue. Just to confirm, I cloned the same repo on my cloud ubuntu vm. and did not see any issue there. Kindly suggest.