diff --git a/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/remotemigration/RemoteMigrationIndexMetadataUpdateIT.java b/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/remotemigration/RemoteMigrationIndexMetadataUpdateIT.java
index 6885d37c4aab0..216c104dfecc1 100644
--- a/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/remotemigration/RemoteMigrationIndexMetadataUpdateIT.java
+++ b/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/remotemigration/RemoteMigrationIndexMetadataUpdateIT.java
@@ -275,7 +275,6 @@ initalMetadataVersion < internalCluster().client()
      * After shard relocation completes, shuts down the docrep nodes and asserts remote
      * index settings are applied even when the index is in YELLOW state
      */
-    @AwaitsFix(bugUrl = "https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/issues/13737")
     public void testIndexSettingsUpdatedEvenForMisconfiguredReplicas() throws Exception {
         internalCluster().startClusterManagerOnlyNode();
 
@@ -332,7 +331,6 @@ public void testIndexSettingsUpdatedEvenForMisconfiguredReplicas() throws Except
      * After shard relocation completes, restarts the docrep node holding extra replica shard copy
      * and asserts remote index settings are applied as soon as the docrep replica copy is unassigned
      */
-    @AwaitsFix(bugUrl = "https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/issues/13871")
     public void testIndexSettingsUpdatedWhenDocrepNodeIsRestarted() throws Exception {
         internalCluster().startClusterManagerOnlyNode();
 
diff --git a/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/remotestore/RemoteStoreIT.java b/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/remotestore/RemoteStoreIT.java
index 96d6338e5913b..3f10cda605bc5 100644
--- a/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/remotestore/RemoteStoreIT.java
+++ b/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/remotestore/RemoteStoreIT.java
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@
 import static org.opensearch.index.remote.RemoteStoreEnums.DataType.METADATA;
 import static org.opensearch.index.shard.IndexShardTestCase.getTranslog;
 import static org.opensearch.indices.RemoteStoreSettings.CLUSTER_REMOTE_TRANSLOG_BUFFER_INTERVAL_SETTING;
-import static org.opensearch.test.OpenSearchTestCase.getShardLevelBlobPath;
 import static org.opensearch.test.hamcrest.OpenSearchAssertions.assertAcked;
 import static org.opensearch.test.hamcrest.OpenSearchAssertions.assertHitCount;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.comparesEqualTo;
@@ -133,6 +132,19 @@ private void testPeerRecovery(int numberOfIterations, boolean invokeFlush) throw
         );
     }
 
+    public void testRemoteStoreIndexCreationAndDeletion() throws InterruptedException, ExecutionException {
+        String dataNode = internalCluster().startNodes(1).get(0);
+        createIndex(INDEX_NAME, remoteStoreIndexSettings(0));
+        ensureYellowAndNoInitializingShards(INDEX_NAME);
+        ensureGreen(INDEX_NAME);
+
+        IndexShard indexShard = getIndexShard(dataNode, INDEX_NAME);
+
+        indexShard.store().incRef();
+        assertAcked(client().admin().indices().prepareDelete(INDEX_NAME));
+        indexShard.store().decRef();
+    }
+
     public void testPeerRecoveryWithRemoteStoreAndRemoteTranslogNoDataFlush() throws Exception {
         testPeerRecovery(1, true);
     }
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/IndexService.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/IndexService.java
index a7849bcf80474..83e40b2716746 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/IndexService.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/IndexService.java
@@ -597,7 +597,14 @@ public synchronized IndexShard createShard(
                         this.indexSettings.getRemoteStorePathStrategy()
                     );
                 }
-                remoteStore = new Store(shardId, this.indexSettings, remoteDirectory, lock, Store.OnClose.EMPTY, path);
+                remoteStore = new Store(
+                    shardId,
+                    this.indexSettings,
+                    remoteDirectory,
+                    getRemoteStoreLock(shardId),
+                    Store.OnClose.EMPTY,
+                    path
+                );
             } else {
                 // Disallow shards with remote store based settings to be created on non-remote store enabled nodes
                 // Even though we have `RemoteStoreMigrationAllocationDecider` in place to prevent something like this from happening at the
@@ -678,6 +685,23 @@ public synchronized IndexShard createShard(
         }
     }
 
+    // When an instance of Store is created, a shardlock is created which is released on closing the instance of store.
+    // Currently, we create 2 instances of store for remote store backed indices: store and remoteStore.
+    // As there can be only one shardlock acquired for a given shard, the lock is shared between store and remoteStore.
+    // This creates an issue when we are deleting the index as it results in closing both store and remoteStore.
+    // Sample test failure: https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/issues/13871
+    // The following method provides ShardLock that is not maintained by NodeEnvironment.
+    // As part of https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/issues/13075, we want to move away from keeping 2
+    // store instances.
+    private ShardLock getRemoteStoreLock(ShardId shardId) {
+        return new ShardLock(shardId) {
+            @Override
+            protected void closeInternal() {
+                // Ignore for remote store
+            }
+        };
+    }
+
     /*
       Fetches the shard path based on the index type -
       For a remote snapshot index, the cache path is used to initialize the shards.