what i failed to mention was that, i had also defaulted ntfs3 driver in udisks, and the absence of error is probably due to that. however when i explicitly set ntfs-3g driver, i did run into more or less the same error.
$ udisksctl mount -t ntfs-3g -b /dev/sdb1
Error mounting /dev/sdb1: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Error.OptionNotPermitted: Requested filesystem type `ntfs-3g' is neither well-known nor in /proc/filesystems nor in /etc/filesystems
in any case if you plan switching to ntfs3 please make sure you run
$ sudo ntfsfix -d /dev/sdXX
on any partition you have previously run ntfsfix without the -d flag, before mounting.