diff --git a/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/indices/replication/SegmentReplicationIT.java b/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/indices/replication/SegmentReplicationIT.java
index a4f63635d2649..ec0a4a522c9a4 100644
--- a/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/indices/replication/SegmentReplicationIT.java
+++ b/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/indices/replication/SegmentReplicationIT.java
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 package org.opensearch.indices.replication;
 
 import com.carrotsearch.randomizedtesting.RandomizedTest;
-import org.apache.lucene.codecs.Codec;
 import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
 import org.apache.lucene.document.Field;
 import org.apache.lucene.document.SortedDocValuesField;
@@ -43,7 +42,6 @@
 import org.opensearch.cluster.routing.ShardRouting;
 import org.opensearch.cluster.routing.ShardRoutingState;
 import org.opensearch.cluster.routing.allocation.command.CancelAllocationCommand;
-import org.opensearch.common.io.PathUtils;
 import org.opensearch.common.io.stream.NamedWriteableRegistry;
 import org.opensearch.common.lease.Releasable;
 import org.opensearch.common.lucene.index.OpenSearchDirectoryReader;
@@ -72,24 +70,14 @@
 import org.opensearch.test.transport.MockTransportService;
 import org.opensearch.transport.TransportService;
 
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.net.URISyntaxException;
-import java.nio.file.Files;
-import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
-import java.util.TreeSet;
 import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
-import java.util.regex.Matcher;
-import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
-import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
-import java.util.zip.ZipInputStream;
 
 import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
 import static org.opensearch.action.search.PitTestsUtil.assertSegments;
@@ -1314,71 +1302,4 @@ public void testWithDifferentCompressionModes() throws Exception {
             verifyStoreContent();
         }
     }
-
-    /**
-     * This test validates that segment replications works for older codec implementations
-     * @throws Exception
-     */
-    public void testWithOlderCodecs() throws Exception {
-        final String nodeA = internalCluster().startNode();
-        final String nodeB = internalCluster().startNode();
-        final Settings settings = Settings.builder()
-            .put(indexSettings())
-            .put(EngineConfig.INDEX_CODEC_SETTING.getKey(), getOlderLuceneCodec())
-            .build();
-        createIndex(INDEX_NAME, settings);
-        final int initialDocCount = scaledRandomIntBetween(100, 200);
-        try (
-            BackgroundIndexer indexer = new BackgroundIndexer(
-                INDEX_NAME,
-                "_doc",
-                client(),
-                -1,
-                RandomizedTest.scaledRandomIntBetween(2, 5),
-                false,
-                random()
-            )
-        ) {
-            indexer.start(initialDocCount);
-            waitForDocs(initialDocCount, indexer);
-            refresh(INDEX_NAME);
-            waitForSearchableDocs(initialDocCount, nodeA, nodeB);
-
-            final int additionalDocCount = scaledRandomIntBetween(0, 200);
-            final int expectedHitCount = initialDocCount + additionalDocCount;
-            indexer.start(additionalDocCount);
-            waitForDocs(expectedHitCount, indexer);
-
-            flushAndRefresh(INDEX_NAME);
-            waitForSearchableDocs(expectedHitCount, nodeA, nodeB);
-
-            ensureGreen(INDEX_NAME);
-            verifyStoreContent();
-        }
-    }
-
-    // Return oldest lucene codec name. It does this by iterating throw all directories under lucene library and filter
-    // ones matching lucene codec name regex
-    private String getOlderLuceneCodec() throws IOException, URISyntaxException {
-        final TreeSet<String> codecNames = new TreeSet<>();
-        final String separator = PathUtils.getDefaultFileSystem().getSeparator();
-        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("lucene[0-9]+");
-        Path luceneJarPath = PathUtils.get(Codec.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation().toURI());
-        try (var fileIn = Files.newInputStream(luceneJarPath)) {
-            ZipInputStream zip = new ZipInputStream(fileIn);
-            for (ZipEntry entry = zip.getNextEntry(); entry != null; entry = zip.getNextEntry()) {
-                final String dirPath = entry.getName();
-                // Fetch name i.e. '../lucene94/' -> 'lucene94'
-                final String dirName = dirPath.substring(dirPath.lastIndexOf(separator, dirPath.length() - 2) + 1, dirPath.length() - 1);
-                Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(dirName);
-                if (matcher.matches()) {
-                    codecNames.add(dirName);
-                }
-            }
-        }
-        logger.debug("--> Older lucene codecs {}", codecNames);
-        String oldestSupportedCodec = codecNames.pollFirst();
-        // Get actual lucene codec class name i.e. lucene90 -> Lucene90
-        return oldestSupportedCodec.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase(Locale.getDefault()) + oldestSupportedCodec.substring(1);
-    }
 }