diff --git a/src/main/java/com/purbon/kafka/topology/serdes/TopologyCustomDeserializer.java b/src/main/java/com/purbon/kafka/topology/serdes/TopologyCustomDeserializer.java
index e28da4cea..f94668597 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/purbon/kafka/topology/serdes/TopologyCustomDeserializer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/purbon/kafka/topology/serdes/TopologyCustomDeserializer.java
@@ -427,17 +427,6 @@ private Optional<PlatformSystem> doStreamsElements(JsonParser parser, JsonNode n
                 + " might require both read and write topics as per its "
                 + "nature it is always reading and writing into Apache Kafka, be aware if you notice problems.");
       }
-      if (topics.get(KStream.READ_TOPICS).isEmpty()) {
-        // should have at minimum read topics defined as we could think of write topics as internal
-        // topics being
-        // auto created.
-        throw new IOException(
-            "Kafka Streams application with Id "
-                + ks.getApplicationId()
-                + " and principal "
-                + ks.getPrincipal()
-                + " have missing read topics. This field is required.");
-      }
     }
     return Optional.of(new PlatformSystem(streams));
   }
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/purbon/kafka/topology/TopologySerdesTest.java b/src/test/java/com/purbon/kafka/topology/TopologySerdesTest.java
index b86c39c35..f3ec66fc2 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/purbon/kafka/topology/TopologySerdesTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/purbon/kafka/topology/TopologySerdesTest.java
@@ -86,11 +86,6 @@ public void testStreamsParsingOnlyReadTopicsShouldNotParseAsNull() {
     }
   }
 
-  @Test(expected = TopologyParsingException.class)
-  public void testStreamsParsingOnlyWriteTopicsShoulRaiseAnException() {
-    parser.deserialise(TestUtils.getResourceFile("/descriptor-streams-only-write.yaml"));
-  }
-
   @Test
   public void testDynamicFirstLevelAttributes() {
     Topology topology =
diff --git a/src/test/resources/descriptor-streams-only-write.yaml b/src/test/resources/descriptor-streams-only-write.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 831e2499b..000000000
--- a/src/test/resources/descriptor-streams-only-write.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
----
-context: "contextOrg"
-source: "source"
-projects:
-  - name: "foo"
-    streams:
-      - principal: "User:App0"
-        topics:
-          write:
-            - "topicA"
-            - "topicB"
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