Unable to consume with specific consumer group on a Kafka cluster - apache-kafka

Question

When I try to consume a topic with a specific consumer group it fails.
I can consume the same topic with a new consumer group.
When describe command is used on the topic there are no consumers attached to any partitions:
GROUP TOPIC PARTITION CURRENT-OFFSET LOG-END-OFFSET LAG CONSUMER-ID HOST CLIENT-ID
dracg clog 1 105288 105588 300 - - -
dracg clog 2 104232 104532 300 - - -
dracg clog 3 104525 104820 295 - - -
dracg clog 0 104941 105243 302 - - -
Even console consumer code cannot consume with this consumer group
I'm giving relevant -group join- section of console consumer log below, group leader
DEBUG [Consumer clientId=consumer-1, groupId=dracg] Joining group with current subscription: [clog] (org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerCoordinator)
DEBUG [Consumer clientId=consumer-1, groupId=dracg] Sending JoinGroup (JoinGroupRequestData(groupId='dracg', sessionTimeoutMs=10000, rebalanceTimeoutMs=300000, memberId='consumer-1-0d44d911-c975-4dfe-83d9-4b96b5fc9638', groupInstanceId='null', protocolType='consumer', protocols=[JoinGroupRequestProtocol(name='range', metadata=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 23, 112, 114, 101, 112, 114, 111, 100, 45, 70, 66, 77, 66, 45, 99, 104, 97, 110, 110, 101, 108, 108, 111, 103, 0, 0, 0, 0])])) to coordinator kafkanode3.example.com:9092 (id: 2147483644 rack: null) (org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator)
DEBUG [Consumer clientId=consumer-1, groupId=dracg] Received successful JoinGroup response: JoinGroupResponseData(throttleTimeMs=0, errorCode=0, generationId=5117, protocolName='range', leader='rdkafka-b5a0e7ac-8311-410f-bf04-b2b2712bad7a', memberId='consumer-1-0d44d911-c975-4dfe-83d9-4b96b5fc9638', members=[]) (org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator)
DEBUG [Consumer clientId=consumer-1, groupId=dracg] Sending follower SyncGroup to coordinator kafkanode3.example.com:9092 (id: 2147483644 rack: null): SyncGroupRequestData(groupId='dracg', generationId=5117, memberId='consumer-1-0d44d911-c975-4dfe-83d9-4b96b5fc9638', groupInstanceId='null', assignments=[]) (org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator)
INFO [Consumer clientId=consumer-1, groupId=dracg] Successfully joined group with generation 5117 (org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator)
DEBUG [Consumer clientId=consumer-1, groupId=dracg] Enabling heartbeat thread (org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator)
INFO [Consumer clientId=consumer-1, groupId=dracg] Setting newly assigned partitions: (org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerCoordinator)
DEBUG [Consumer clientId=consumer-1, groupId=dracg] Sending Heartbeat request to coordinator kafkanode3.example.com:9092 (id: 2147483644 rack: null) (org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator)
DEBUG [Consumer clientId=consumer-1, groupId=dracg] Received successful Heartbeat response (org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator)
DEBUG [Consumer clientId=consumer-1, groupId=dracg] Sending asynchronous auto-commit of offsets {} (org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerCoordinator)
DEBUG [Consumer clientId=consumer-1, groupId=dracg] Completed asynchronous auto-commit of offsets {} (org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerCoordinator)
DEBUG [Consumer clientId=consumer-1, groupId=dracg] Sending Heartbeat request to coordinator kafkanode3.example.com:9092 (id: 2147483644 rack: null) (org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator)
DEBUG [Consumer clientId=consumer-1, groupId=dracg] Received successful Heartbeat response (org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator)
DEBUG [Consumer clientId=consumer-1, groupId=dracg] Sending Heartbeat request to coordinator kafkanode3.example.com:9092 (id: 2147483644 rack: null) (org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator)
DEBUG [Consumer clientId=consumer-1, groupId=dracg] Received successful Heartbeat response (org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator)
Kafka version 2.3.0
If you have any clue on this please share.