Ionic build android falló con 403 Http respose de Gradle, JAVA_HOME no válido

Estoy usando la máquina Windows 7X64 e intento construir la aplicación Andriod usandocordova/ionic CLI v1.5.5. Recibo este error que no pude resolver.

"You may not have the required environment or OS to build this project"

con comandosionic build android ycordova build android. El comandoionic platform add android fue exitoso. Estoy trabajando con Android SDK (API 22) usando el SDK Manager de Android. También me aseguré de que la variable PATH esté configurada correctamente.

La transcripción completa del proceso es:

C:\Users\ddevkota\Desktop\freshIonic>ionic build android
Running command: "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" C:\Users\ddevkota\Desktop\fr
eshIonic\hooks\after_prepare\010_add_platform_class.js C:\Users\ddevkota\Desktop
\freshIonic
add to body class: platform-android
Running command: cmd "/s /c "C:\Users\ddevkota\Desktop\freshIonic\platforms\andr
oid\cordova\build.bat""
ANDROID_HOME=C:\Users\ddevkota\AppData\Local\Android\sdk
JAVA_HOME=C:\Progra~1\Java\jdk1.7.0_15
Running: C:\Users\ddevkota\Desktop\freshIonic\platforms\android\gradlew cdvBuild
Debug -b C:\Users\ddevkota\Desktop\freshIonic\platforms\android\build.gradle -Do
rg.gradle.daemon=true
Downloading http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.2.1-all.zip

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException: Serv
er returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL: http://services.gradle.org/distribu
tions/gradle-2.2.1-all.zip
        at org.gradle.wrapper.ExclusiveFileAccessManager.access(ExclusiveFileAcc
essManager.java:78)
        at org.gradle.wrapper.Install.createDist(Install.java:47)
        at org.gradle.wrapper.WrapperExecutor.execute(WrapperExecutor.java:129)
        at org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain.main(GradleWrapperMain.java:48)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL:
 http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.2.1-all.zip
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLCon
nection.java:1625)
        at org.gradle.wrapper.Download.downloadInternal(Download.java:59)
        at org.gradle.wrapper.Download.download(Download.java:45)
        at org.gradle.wrapper.Install$1.call(Install.java:60)
        at org.gradle.wrapper.Install$1.call(Install.java:47)
        at org.gradle.wrapper.ExclusiveFileAccessManager.access(ExclusiveFileAcc
essManager.java:65)
        ... 3 more

C:\Users\ddevkota\Desktop\freshIonic\platforms\android\cordova\node_modules\q\q.
js:126
                    throw e;
                          ^
Error code 1 for command: cmd with args: /s /c "C:\Users\ddevkota\Desktop\freshI
onic\platforms\android\gradlew cdvBuildDebug -b C:\Users\ddevkota\Desktop\freshI
onic\platforms\android\build.gradle -Dorg.gradle.daemon=true"
ERROR building one of the platforms: Error: cmd: Command failed with exit code 1

You may not have the required environment or OS to build this project
Error: cmd: Command failed with exit code 1
    at ChildProcess.whenDone (C:\Users\ddevkota\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules
\cordova\node_modules\cordova-lib\src\cordova\superspawn.js:134:23)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:110:17)
    at maybeClose (child_process.js:1015:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:1087:5)

Gracias por la ayuda de antemano.

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