diff --git a/velox/dwio/common/ScanSpec.cpp b/velox/dwio/common/ScanSpec.cpp
index 005c6eaa47ae9..100e9b79b0c69 100644
--- a/velox/dwio/common/ScanSpec.cpp
+++ b/velox/dwio/common/ScanSpec.cpp
@@ -277,15 +277,7 @@ bool testFilter(
     const TypePtr& type) {
   bool mayHaveNull = true;
 
-  // Has-null statistics is often not set. Hence, we supplement it with
-  // number-of-values statistic to detect no-null columns more often.
-  // Number-of-values is the number of non-null values. When it is equal to
-  // total number of values, we know there are no nulls.
   if (stats->getNumberOfValues().has_value()) {
-    if (stats->getNumberOfValues().value() == 0) {
-      // Column is all null.
-      return filter->testNull();
-    }
     mayHaveNull = stats->getNumberOfValues().value() < totalRows;
   }
 
diff --git a/velox/dwio/parquet/tests/examples/null_map.parquet b/velox/dwio/parquet/tests/examples/null_map.parquet
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..64dbe3e87a43c
Binary files /dev/null and b/velox/dwio/parquet/tests/examples/null_map.parquet differ
diff --git a/velox/dwio/parquet/tests/reader/ParquetTableScanTest.cpp b/velox/dwio/parquet/tests/reader/ParquetTableScanTest.cpp
index f7a66ae039524..3da6984d3135d 100644
--- a/velox/dwio/parquet/tests/reader/ParquetTableScanTest.cpp
+++ b/velox/dwio/parquet/tests/reader/ParquetTableScanTest.cpp
@@ -354,6 +354,19 @@ TEST_F(ParquetTableScanTest, map) {
   assertSelectWithFilter({"map"}, {}, "", "SELECT map FROM tmp");
 }
 
+TEST_F(ParquetTableScanTest, nullMap) {
+  auto path = getExampleFilePath("null_map.parquet");
+  loadData(
+      path,
+      ROW({"i", "c"}, {VARCHAR(), MAP(VARCHAR(), VARCHAR())}),
+      makeRowVector(
+          {"i", "c"},
+          {makeConstant<std::string>("1", 1),
+           makeNullableMapVector<std::string, std::string>({std::nullopt})}));
+
+  assertSelectWithFilter({"i", "c"}, {}, "", "SELECT i, c FROM tmp");
+}
+
 // Core dump is fixed.
 TEST_F(ParquetTableScanTest, singleRowStruct) {
   auto vector = makeArrayVector<int32_t>({{}});