Download of 2.3.2 ES but curl -XGET says 1.2.1

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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[sian@sandbox Downloads]$ ps -aef | grep elastic
sian 10160 1 1 12:36 pts/0 00:00:06 /usr/lib/jvm/java/bin/java -Xms256m -Xmx1g -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Djna.nosys=true -Des.path.home=/opt/sw/elasticsearch-2.3.2 -cp /opt/sw/elasticsearch-2.3.2/lib/elasticsearch-2.3.2.jar:/opt/sw/elasticsearch-2.3.2/lib/* org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch start -d
sian 10884 6672 0 12:44 pts/1 00:00:00 grep elastic

[sian@sandbox Downloads]$ curl -XGET http://127.0.0.1:9200/
{
"status" : 200,
"name" : "Growing Man",
"version" : {
"number" : "1.2.1",
"build_hash" : "6c95b759f9e7ef0f8e17f77d850da43ce8a4b364",
"build_timestamp" : "2014-06-03T15:02:52Z",
"build_snapshot" : false,
"lucene_version" : "4.8"
},
"tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}

Is my understanding wrong ?

Thanks Niloy.

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Perhaps you already had an ES instance running? If you shut down the one you started and retry the curl operation, what happens?