Running laravel app using Grunt fails to start session on local environment - angularjs

Question

I am working on an angular-laravel app. I have an API kind of workflow.
The angular app sits at the root of the project directory in the angular folder.This has the build tools and dependency management tools configured like bower and grunt.
My routes.php has been configured to authenticate the user on login.
Route::post('login','LoginController#auth');
Route::get('checkAuthentication','LoginController#isLoggedIn');
When I call both the routes,I always get the response as false.
Tried printing the values in the Auth::attempt() method,which logs in the user,but the session does not persist.The user is immediately thrown out to the home page.
I start the applcication using grunt by running grunt serve. This starts the app on localhost:9000. I call the laravel routes from angular by giving path to the public folder as they are laravel routes. Example: localhost/project_dir/public/login. This check the user in database but immediately destroy or does not create session even after adding CORS extension. NO error is displayed.Just false is returned and the user is redirected to home page.
Remote Address:127.0.0.1:80
Request URL:http://localhost/project_dir/public/user/check
Request Method:POST
Status Code:200 OK
Response Headers
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Access-Control-Allow-Origin:http://localhost:9000
Cache-Control:no-cache
Connection:Keep-Alive
Content-Length:4
Content-Type:text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date:Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:30:33 GMT
Keep-Alive:timeout=5, max=99
Server:Apache/2.4.9 (Win64) PHP/5.5.12
Set- Cookie:laravel_session=eyJpdiI6InlaVVlxUDRra3E1NXdcL25OekJvSlBRPT0iLCJ2YWx1ZSI6IlVaWGF6NmdsV1wvZ3NcL1FTVkR5Y2J3czlQNUkyaWdxZlJmeG5zK2U2c0lqM2VOMEY5S000cVwveTBVazBwVFNSZXlhZmhWSEUxUlRyMVJidE5TcE5jM2FBPT0iLCJtYWMiOiIzYzQ2YjJkMjVmMjZiODBiNzgwNmY3YjQ3NmMwOWI5MmM3NmFmZmNmMzY1MDFkNjFlMjg0MjQ0MzVjNGUyYTAzIn0%3D; expires=Wed, 29-Jul-2015 12:30:33 GMT; Max-Age=7200; path=/; domain=http://localhost:9000/; httponly
Vary:Origin
X-Powered-By:PHP/5.5.12
Request Headers
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Accept:application/json, text/plain, */*
Accept-Encoding:gzip, deflate
Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8
Cache-Control:max-age=0
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Length:0
Host:localhost
Origin:http://localhost:9000
Referer:http://localhost:9000/
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/44.0.2403.107 Safari/537.36 FirePHP/4Chrome
X-FirePHP-Version:0.0.6
X-Wf-Max-Combined-Size:261120
Above are request response headers for a route to check users session.
How can I debug it to resolve the issue? Is it angular rejecting the request?
Update:
I tried disabling the laravel_session cookie using this link but still no luck
Remote Address:127.0.0.1:80
Request URL:http://localhost/project_dir/public/user/check
Request Method:POST
Status Code:200 OK
Response Headers
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Access-Control-Allow-Origin:http://localhost:9000
Cache-Control:no-cache
Connection:Keep-Alive
Content-Length:4
Content-Type:text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date:Wed, 29 Jul 2015 13:41:51 GMT
Keep-Alive:timeout=5, max=100
Server:Apache/2.4.9 (Win64) PHP/5.5.12
Vary:Origin
X-Powered-By:PHP/5.5.12
Request Headers
view source
Accept:application/json, text/plain, */*
Accept-Encoding:gzip, deflate
Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8
Cache-Control:max-age=0
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Length:0
Host:localhost
Origin:http://localhost:9000
Referer:http://localhost:9000/
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/44.0.2403.107 Safari/537.36