GoogleIdTokenVerifier.verify always returns null - google-oauth

Question

I am trying to validate a JWT Token sent by Google to my application . I am using the below code to validate the JWT token but verifier.verify(token) always returns null even if the token is valid. I have tested the token in another NodeJS code i have and it works fine in NodeJS but in the below java code i am not able to validate the token . Any help in letting me know why verifier.verify(token) returns null is appreciated.
public static boolean isRequestFromGoogle(String audience, String token) {
//HttpTransport httpTransport = checkNotNull(Utils.getDefaultTransport());
//JsonFactory jsonFactory = checkNotNull(Utils.getDefaultJsonFactory());
HttpTransport httpTransport = new NetHttpTransport();
JsonFactory jsonFactory = new JacksonFactory();
GoogleIdTokenVerifier verifier = new GoogleIdTokenVerifier.Builder(httpTransport,
jsonFactory).setAudience(Collections.singletonList(audience)).build();
try {
System.out.println("token is " + token);
System.out.println("verifier is " + verifier.toString());
GoogleIdToken idToken = verifier.verify(token);
if (idToken == null) {
System.out.println("idToken is null");
return false;
}
Payload payload = idToken.getPayload();
String issuer = (String) payload.get("iss");
String proj = (String) payload.get("aud");
System.out.println("Issuer is" + issuer);
System.out.println("Project is" + proj);
return issuer.equals("https://accounts.google.com");
} catch (GeneralSecurityException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return false;
}