Update pyiceberg/io/pyarrow.py

Co-authored-by: Fokko Driesprong <fokko@apache.org>

Author: GayathriSrividya

pyiceberg/io/pyarrow.py

@@ -1676,13 +1676,8 @@ def _task_to_record_batches(
                 # Create the mask of indices that we're interested in
                 indices = _combine_positional_deletes(positional_deletes, current_index, current_index + len(batch))
                 current_batch = current_batch.take(indices)
-                if pyarrow_filter is not None:
-                    try:
-                        current_batch = current_batch.filter(pyarrow_filter)
-                    except IndexError:
-                        # PyArrow < 21 raises IndexError when filter produces zero rows
-                        # (fixed in https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/46057)
-                        current_batch = current_batch.slice(0, 0)
+                if pyarrow_filter is not None and len(current_batch) > 0:
+                    current_batch = current_batch.filter(pyarrow_filter)
 
             # skip empty batches
             if current_batch.num_rows == 0: