Users are encountering 'invalid hash value' errors when filing ITR 5 using the Excel utility, as modifications outside the utility are disallowed. This often stems from using an outdated XML utility which leads to JSON conversion errors. Fortunately, a new JSON version of ITR 5 (DU-.v.1.0.2) has been released, which should resolve these uploading issues.
18 September 2021
XML Utility released is very old, which is not modified to the bugs. Conversion to Json file bound to create errors. So, advisable to use latest Json utility.