diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index ff3466c00..6362b1b1d 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ allprojects  {
             dependency 'org.ehcache:ehcache:3.9.6'
             dependency 'com.github.spullara.mustache.java:compiler:0.9.10'
             dependency 'com.jayway.jsonpath:json-path:2.6.0'
-            dependency 'org.apache.tika:tika-core:1.27'
+            dependency 'org.apache.tika:tika-core:2.1.0'
             dependency 'org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.5.13'
             dependency 'io.swagger.core.v3:swagger-annotations:2.1.10'
             dependency 'jakarta.management.j2ee:jakarta.management.j2ee-api:1.1.4'
diff --git a/fineract-provider/src/main/java/org/apache/fineract/infrastructure/bulkimport/service/BulkImportWorkbookServiceImpl.java b/fineract-provider/src/main/java/org/apache/fineract/infrastructure/bulkimport/service/BulkImportWorkbookServiceImpl.java
index 425529478..9c68666f4 100644
--- a/fineract-provider/src/main/java/org/apache/fineract/infrastructure/bulkimport/service/BulkImportWorkbookServiceImpl.java
+++ b/fineract-provider/src/main/java/org/apache/fineract/infrastructure/bulkimport/service/BulkImportWorkbookServiceImpl.java
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ import java.sql.SQLException;
 import java.time.LocalDate;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.fineract.infrastructure.bulkimport.data.BulkImportEvent;
 import org.apache.fineract.infrastructure.bulkimport.data.GlobalEntityType;
 import org.apache.fineract.infrastructure.bulkimport.data.ImportData;
@@ -50,7 +51,6 @@ import org.apache.fineract.infrastructure.security.service.PlatformSecurityConte
 import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook;
 import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Workbook;
 import org.apache.tika.Tika;
-import org.apache.tika.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.tika.io.TikaInputStream;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;