Auth Middleware not working properly In Laravel 10

In my Laravel Project i have few routes which i want to protect if the user is not authenticated thats why i make this changes to Authenticate middleware :

namespace AppHttpMiddleware;

use IlluminateAuthMiddlewareAuthenticate as Middleware;
use IlluminateHttpRequest;

class Authenticate extends Middleware
{
    /**
     * Get the path the user should be redirected to when they are not authenticated.
     */
    protected function redirectTo(Request $request): ?string
    {
        return $request->expectsJson() ? null : route('login');
    }
} 

I am handling my login register in the AuthController like this :

<?php

namespace AppHttpControllers;

use AppModelsUser;
use IlluminateHttpRequest;
use IlluminateSupportFacadesHash;
use IlluminateSupportFacadesValidator;
use IlluminateSupportFacadesAuth;

class AuthController extends Controller
{
    public function login_view(){
        return view('auth.Login');
    }
    public function login(Request $request){
        $request->validate([
            'email' => 'required|email',
            'password' => 'required'
        ]);
    
        $user = User::where('email', $request->email)->first();
        if (!$user) {
            return redirect()->back()->with('error', 'User with this email does not exist');
        }

        try {
            if (Auth::attempt(['email' => $request->email, 'password' => $request->password])) {
                $user = Auth::user();
                session()->put('user_id', $user->user_id);
                session()->put('type', $user->type);
                // dd(Auth::user());
                if ($user->type == 'User') {
                    return redirect('Home');
                } else {
                    return redirect('Dashboard');
                }
            } else {
                // return redirect()->back()->with('error', 'Wrong Password');
                dd($e->getMessage());
            }
        } catch (Exception $e) {
            // return redirect()->back()->with('error', $e->getMessage());
            dd($e->getMessage());
        }
    }

    public function register_view(){
        return view('auth.Register');
    }
    public function register(Request $request){
        $validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [
            "society_no" => "required",
            "rooms" => "required",
            "firstname" => "required",
            "lastname" => "required",
            "email" => "required|email|unique:USERS",
            "password" => "required|min:8",
            "cpassword" => "required|same:password",
        ], [
            "password.min" => "The password must be at least 8 characters long.",
            "cpassword.same" => "The password and confirm password must match.",
            "email.unique" => "This email is already registered."
        ]);
        if ($validator->fails()) {
            return redirect()->back()->withErrors($validator)->withInput();
        }
        try {
            $newUser = new User();

            $newUser->society_no = $request->input('society_no');
            $newUser->rooms = json_encode($request->input('rooms'));
            $newUser->firstname = $request->input('firstname');
            $newUser->lastname = $request->input('lastname');
            $newUser->email = $request->input('email');
            $newUser->password = Hash::make($request->input('password'));

            if ($newUser->save()) {
                return redirect('login')->with('success', 'User Registered Successfully');
            }
        } catch (Exception $e) {
            // dd($e->getMessage());
            return redirect()->back()->with('error', 'Failed to Register User');
        }
    }
    
    public function forgot_view(){
        return view('auth.Forgot');
    }
    public function forgot(Request $request){
        dd($request->all());
    }

    public function logout_view(){
        return view('auth.Logout');
    }
    public function logout(){
        session()->forget('user_id');
        session()->forget('type');
        Auth::logout();
        return redirect('login');
    }
}

This is where i apply the auth middlware in my web.php :

<?php

use IlluminateSupportFacadesRoute;
use AppHttpControllersAuthController;

Route::group(['middleware' => 'auth'],function () {
    Route::get('/Home', function () {
        return view('Home');
    })->name('Home');
    Route::get('/Profile', function () {
        return view('Profile');
    })->name('Profile');

    Route::get('/Logout', [AuthController::class, 'logout_view'])->name('Logout');
    Route::post('/Logout', [AuthController::class, 'logout'])->name('Logout');
});

    Route::get('/login', [AuthController::class, 'login_view'])->name('login');
    Route::post('/login', [AuthController::class, 'login'])->name('login');
    
    Route::get('/Register', [AuthController::class, 'register_view'])->name('Register');
    Route::post('/Register', [AuthController::class, 'register'])->name('Register');
    
    Route::get('/Forgot', [AuthController::class, 'forgot_view'])->name('Forgot');
    Route::post('/Forgot', [AuthController::class, 'forgot'])->name('Forgot');

, and finally this is my Model User.php :

<?php

namespace AppModels;

use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentFactoriesHasFactory;
use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentModel;

use IlluminateFoundationAuthUser as Authenticatable;


// class User extends Model
class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use HasFactory;
    protected $table = 'USERS';
}

After applying the middleware to my routes, the page keeps redirecting back to login even after successful authentication with no errors. After some debugging, I discovered that the Auth::user() is null whenever login finishes, which I don’t understand because, as you can see in my login function, when login is successful, the user gets succesfully redirected to Home or Dashboard with the help of $user = Auth::user(); $user->type == ‘User’ IF THE MIDDLEWARE IS NOT SET.