Its not about a specific VLAN from which the client doesn't get IP address. For simplicity i have created 2 VLANs, 1 for 1/8 GE port and another for all the FE ports.
Clients don't get IPs no matter which VLAN they are associated to when connected through one of the FE ports on the controller. Things started working fine when client gets connected (directly or indirectly) through 1/8 GE port of the controller. Something about the FE ports i guess.
All the ports including 1/8 are configured as access and trusted ports.
Please note that for some reason i couldn't manage to arrange a client device (laptop) or AP for now to connect to the controller on one of the FE ports that is why the system is showing "down" against the "operstate". Kindly ignore this and assume that the device is connected and still not getting IP address as i'm experiencing this for days now.