orderby and order filter in get_posts or WP_query function in wordpress not working

I found my problem on the UI side (thanks to @CBroe) where by ajax response was being exposed to a jQuery library DataTable(), whose default ordering was sorting in alphabetical order. I set the ordering parameter to false as:

$("#someid").DataTable({"ordering":false});

And My results were displayed as I was willing to

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