Unable to override cucumber tags in Cucumber options from command line

Question

I have this strange issue where I am unable to override the tag in the runner with the tag I supply from command line.

Runner class:-

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@CucumberOptions(
        plugin = {"pretty",
                "timeline:target/cucumber-timeline/",
                "json:target/cucumber-report/cucumber.json",
                "junit:target/cucumber-report/report-xml.xml"},
        dryRun = false,
        useFileNameCompatibleName = true,
        stepNotifications = true,
        strict = true,
        features = "src/test/resources/features",
        snippets = CucumberOptions.SnippetType.CAMELCASE,
        glue = {"com.Novatel"},
        tags = {"@smoke"})
public class RunCucumberIT {
}

Sample Feature file:-

@sampleTest
Feature: Testing the website navigation

  Scenario: Navigate to the the site1
    Given I click on the URL
    Then I navigate to the site

 @smoke
  Scenario: Navigate to bbc1
    Given I navigate to the url
    Then I am able to view the news

And I set the below sys property and run:-

mvn clean verify -DCucumber.filter.tags="@sampleTest"

But it just ignores the above tag to run the feature and runs the second scenario with @smoke tag, but that's not what I want as I need to run the features with its own tags from command line. I know it is possible, but I have no idea why it doesn't work. I have googled for hours with no luck. I use Cucumber 5.0.0 and Junit 4.12.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks