diff --git a/hadoop-hdds/dev-support/checkstyle/suppressions-skip-imports.xml b/hadoop-hdds/dev-support/checkstyle/suppressions-skip-imports.xml
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index ed8c510d3155..000000000000
--- a/hadoop-hdds/dev-support/checkstyle/suppressions-skip-imports.xml
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@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0"?>
-<!--
-  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  limitations under the License. See accompanying LICENSE file.
--->
-<!-- TODO: To be removed as soon as epic https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDDS-12251 is done. -->
-<!DOCTYPE suppressions PUBLIC
-    "-//Checkstyle//DTD SuppressionFilter Configuration 1.1//EN"
-    "https://checkstyle.org/dtds/suppressions_1_1.dtd">
-
-<suppressions>
-  <suppress checks="JavadocPackage" files="[\\/]src[\\/]test[\\/].*"/>
-  <suppress checks="JavadocPackage" files="src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/erasurecode/rawcoder"/>
-  <suppress checks="IllegalImport" files="src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/contract/.*java"/>
-  <suppress checks="MissingJavadocType" files="src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/contract/.*java"/>
-  <suppress checks="IllegalImport" files="src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/contract/.*java"/>
-  <suppress checks="CustomImportOrder" files=".*"/>
-  <suppress checks="Header" files=".*"/>
-</suppressions>