Bundles in karaf failing due to "Bundle Exception: Uses constraint violation." - maven

Question

I work on a multi module maven project with osgi bundles deployed to karaf. We are observing intermittent bundle start-up issues in our test and production environments due to the below error, which is later resolved after restarting the karaf container:
Caused by: org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Uses constraint violation. Unable to resolve resource myBundle [myBundle [16](R 16.0)] because it is exposed to package 'javax.el' from resources javax.el-api [javax.el-api [236](R 236.0)] and com.sun.el.javax.el [com.sun.el.javax.el [212](R 212.0)] via two dependency chains.
Chain 1:
myBundle [myBundle [16](R 16.0)]
import: (&(osgi.wiring.package=javax.el)(version>=3.0.0)(!(version>=4.0.0)))
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export: osgi.wiring.package: javax.el
javax.el-api [javax.el-api [236](R 236.0)]
Chain 2:
myBundle [myBundle [16](R 16.0)]
import: (&(osgi.wiring.package=com.sun.el)(version>=3.0.0)(!(version>=4.0.0)))
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export: osgi.wiring.package: com.sun.el; uses:=javax.el
export: osgi.wiring.package=javax.el
com.sun.el.javax.el [com.sun.el.javax.el [212](R 212.0)] Unresolved requirements: [[myBundle [16](R 16.0)] osgi.wiring.package; (&(osgi.wiring.package=com.sun.el)(version>=3.0.0)(!(version>=4.0.0)))]
at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.resolveBundleRevision(Felix.java:4111)[org.apache.felix.framework-5.4.0.jar:]
at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.startBundle(Felix.java:2117)[org.apache.felix.framework-5.4.0.jar:]
at org.apache.felix.framework.BundleImpl.start(BundleImpl.java:998)[org.apache.felix.framework-5.4.0.jar:]
at org.apache.felix.framework.BundleImpl.start(BundleImpl.java:984)[org.apache.felix.framework-5.4.0.jar:]
at org.apache.karaf.features.internal.service.FeaturesServiceImpl.startBundle(FeaturesServiceImpl.java:1286)[10:org.apache.karaf.features.core:4.0.7]
at org.apache.karaf.features.internal.service.Deployer.deploy(Deployer.java:846)[10:org.apache.karaf.features.core:4.0.7]
... 6 more
I went through these 2 related SO posts (Error starting bundle in karaf: "via two dependency chains" and Why are uses constraints violated when both chains end in the same bundle? ) but in my situation I am actually unable to determine where from the javax.el-api dependency is being introduced to myBundle. Our project uses Hibernate Validator, which requires the EL package from glassfish jar, so this is where the com.sun.el.javax.el package dependency is introduced. I was unable to determine where the javax.el-api dependency is being introduced from though. I tried checking the dependency tree using the below maven commands but to no avail.
mvn compile dependency:tree
mvn compile dependency:tree -D:verbose
mvn compile dependency:tree -D:verbose -Dincludes=javax.el
This is the dependency added for hibernate validator:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.el</artifactId>
<version>3.0.1-b08</version>
</dependency>
The karaf version being used is 4.0.7
Any help will be appreciated.