FAILED: test org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: unhandled inspector error: {&#82

FAILED: test
org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: unhandled inspector error: {"code":-32603,"message":"Cannot navigate to invalid URL"}
(Session info: chrome=49.0.2623.105)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.18.343845 (73dd713ba7fbfb73cbb514e62641d8c96a94682a),platform=Windows NT 6.1 SP1 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 180 milliseconds
Build info: version: '2.53.0', revision: '35ae25b', time: '2016-03-15 16:57:40'
System info: host: 'HSNMM-KhyatiS', ip: '10.50.33.63', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.7.0_79'
Session ID: 805809dc0b6156ce969fb10e0e95c2a5
Driver info: io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver
Capabilities [{platform=ANDROID, acceptSslCerts=true, javascriptEnabled=true, browserName=chrome, chrome={}, rotatable=false, locationContextEnabled=true, mobileEmulationEnabled=false, version=49.0.2623.105, takesHeapSnapshot=true, cssSelectorsEnabled=true, databaseEnabled=false, handlesAlerts=true, browserConnectionEnabled=false, webStorageEnabled=true, nativeEvents=true, hasTouchScreen=true, applicationCacheEnabled=false, takesScreenshot=true}]
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)

Understanding the problem statement:-

Capabilities Set [{platform=ANDROID,

acceptSslCerts=true,

javascriptEnabled=true,

browserName=chrome,

chrome={},

rotatable=false,

locationContextEnabled=true,

mobileEmulationEnabled=false,

version=49.0.2623.105,

takesHeapSnapshot=true,

cssSelectorsEnabled=true,

databaseEnabled=false,

handlesAlerts=true,

browserConnectionEnabled=false,

webStorageEnabled=true,

nativeEvents=true,

hasTouchScreen=true,

applicationCacheEnabled=false,

takesScreenshot=true}]

Error occurred:-

{"code":-32603,"message":"Cannot navigate to invalid URL"}

Remediation by digging into problem:-

The URL which I was sending dint have the protocol- HTTP , HTTPs so the URL forming was incorrect. I tried inspecting the code by debugging and putting