diff --git a/requirements-hf-embed.in b/requirements-hf-embed.in
index a7994b070..38df32543 100644
--- a/requirements-hf-embed.in
+++ b/requirements-hf-embed.in
@@ -6,6 +6,3 @@
 llama-index-core
 llama-index-embeddings-huggingface
 
-# To retain python 3.9 compatibility
-scipy<1.14
-
diff --git a/requirements-hf-embed.txt b/requirements-hf-embed.txt
index 1ec6e92f9..257941b83 100644
--- a/requirements-hf-embed.txt
+++ b/requirements-hf-embed.txt
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ scikit-learn==1.5.1
     # via sentence-transformers
 scipy==1.13.1
     # via
-    #   -r requirements-hf-embed.in
+    #   -c requirements.txt
     #   scikit-learn
     #   sentence-transformers
 sentence-transformers==3.0.1
diff --git a/requirements.in b/requirements.in
index 3fedaa2b6..c093c977d 100644
--- a/requirements.in
+++ b/requirements.in
@@ -38,3 +38,6 @@ tree-sitter==0.21.3
 # https://github.com/pypa/twine/blob/6fbf880ee60915cf1666348c4bdd78a10415f2ac/twine/__init__.py#L40
 # Uses importlib-metadata
 importlib-metadata<8.0.0
+
+# To retain python 3.9 compatibility
+scipy<1.14
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index fe7480c74..b6ec9f810 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ numpy==1.26.4
     #   pandas
     #   pyarrow
     #   pydeck
+    #   scipy
     #   streamlit
 openai==1.35.10
     # via litellm
@@ -265,6 +266,8 @@ rpds-py==0.18.1
     #   referencing
 rsa==4.9
     # via google-auth
+scipy==1.13.1
+    # via -r requirements.in
 six==1.16.0
     # via python-dateutil
 smmap==5.0.1