NPE while publishing messages on JMS destination

Hi,
I am getting below Exception while publishing message AMQ topic. The
version I am using is 5.5.1.Is this a know bug or may be I am doing
something wrong.

Caused by: javax.jms.JMSException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at
org.apache.activemq.util.JMSExceptionSupport.create(JMSExceptionSupport.java:49)
at
org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnection.syncSendPacket(ActiveMQConnection.java:1295)
at
org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQSession.send(ActiveMQSession.java:1760)
at
org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQMessageProducer.send(ActiveMQMessageProducer.java:231)
at
org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQMessageProducerSupport.send(ActiveMQMessageProducerSupport.java:241)
at
com.ericsson.oss.utilities.commons.messaging.shared.internal.MessageSender.createAndSendMessageWithMessagePropertiesProvider(MessageSender.java:336)
... 11 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.activemq.broker.region.Topic.send(Topic.java:272)
at
org.apache.activemq.broker.region.AbstractRegion.send(AbstractRegion.java:365)
at
org.apache.activemq.broker.region.RegionBroker.send(RegionBroker.java:523)
at
org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerFilter.send(BrokerFilter.java:129)
at
org.apache.activemq.broker.CompositeDestinationBroker.send(CompositeDestinationBroker.java:96)
at
org.apache.activemq.broker.TransactionBroker.send(TransactionBroker.java:227)
at
org.apache.activemq.broker.BrokerFilter.send(BrokerFilter.java:129)
at
org.apache.activemq.broker.MutableBrokerFilter.send(MutableBrokerFilter.java:135)
at
org.apache.activemq.broker.TransportConnection.processMessage(TransportConnection.java:458)
at
org.apache.activemq.command.ActiveMQMessage.visit(ActiveMQMessage.java:681)
at
org.apache.activemq.broker.TransportConnection.service(TransportConnection.java:306)
at
org.apache.activemq.broker.TransportConnection$1.onCommand(TransportConnection.java:179)
at
org.apache.activemq.transport.TransportFilter.onCommand(TransportFilter.java:69)
at
org.apache.activemq.transport.TransportFilter.onCommand(TransportFilter.java:69)
at
org.apache.activemq.transport.WireFormatNegotiator.onCommand(WireFormatNegotiator.java:113)
at
org.apache.activemq.transport.InactivityMonitor.onCommand(InactivityMonitor.java:227)
at
org.apache.activemq.transport.TransportSupport.doConsume(TransportSupport.java:83)
at
org.apache.activemq.transport.tcp.TcpTransport.doRun(TcpTransport.java:220)
at
org.apache.activemq.transport.tcp.TcpTransport.run(TcpTransport.java:202)
... 1 more

Regards,
Senthil