I still don't know why CGI::Session->load(..) is not fetching the valid session but I modified login.cgi and delete_existing_session() as follows and it is working now.. 

--------------------------------------------
login.cgi - final
--------------------------------------------

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

...
...

# new query object
my $cgi = CGI->new;

# get existing id from cookie 
my $existing_id = $cgi->cookie('CGISESSID') or undef;

# If existing_id is valid, then call sub to delete the session
if ( defined $existing_id) {

 # Load and Delete existing session
 delete_existing_session($existing_id);

}
# Get a new session
my $session = get_session($cgi);

...
...


--------------------------------------------
delete_existing_session() - final 
--------------------------------------------

sub delete_existing_session {

 my $exist_sess_id = shift;

 # Load existing session     
 my $session = CGI::Session->new( undef, 
                                $exist_sess_id, 
                { Directory => '/usr/sessions' })         
        or die "can't create session: $!";

 # Delete the session    
 $session->delete();
 $session->flush();
    
}

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Thanks for the inputs, vgn

In reply to Re^4: Issues with creating a new CGI Session everytime at start-up by Anonymous Monk
in thread Issues with creating a new CGI Session everytime at start-up by Anonymous Monk

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