Android : Jenkins gradle build error on integrating crashlytics fabric with Android studio

I am using Jenkins and trying to build Android Studio project which uses the crashlytics new Fabric.

I am also using gradle 2.2.1

I get error from the following in the Jenkins log-

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  What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'.

  
  

  
  

  Failed to apply plugin [id 'io.fabric'] Could not create plugin of type 'CrashlyticsPlugin'.

  
  

  
  


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  Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

  
  

Any help will be appreciated.