diff --git a/storage/badger/approvals_test.go b/storage/badger/approvals_test.go
index 1b13a49ae59..5e433fa0c66 100644
--- a/storage/badger/approvals_test.go
+++ b/storage/badger/approvals_test.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package badger_test
 
 import (
 	"errors"
+	"sync"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/dgraph-io/badger/v2"
@@ -79,3 +80,52 @@ func TestApprovalStoreTwoDifferentApprovalsShouldFail(t *testing.T) {
 		require.True(t, errors.Is(err, storage.ErrDataMismatch))
 	})
 }
+
+// verify that storing and indexing two conflicting approvals concurrently should fail
+// one of them is succeed, the other one should fail
+func TestApprovalStoreTwoDifferentApprovalsConcurrently(t *testing.T) {
+	unittest.RunWithBadgerDB(t, func(db *badger.DB) {
+		metrics := metrics.NewNoopCollector()
+		store := bstorage.NewResultApprovals(metrics, db)
+
+		approval1 := unittest.ResultApprovalFixture()
+		approval2 := unittest.ResultApprovalFixture()
+
+		var wg sync.WaitGroup
+		wg.Add(2)
+
+		var firstIndexErr, secondIndexErr error
+
+		// First goroutine stores and indexes the first approval.
+		go func() {
+			defer wg.Done()
+
+			err := store.Store(approval1)
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+
+			firstIndexErr = store.Index(approval1.Body.ExecutionResultID, approval1.Body.ChunkIndex, approval1.ID())
+		}()
+
+		// Second goroutine stores and tries to index the second approval for the same chunk.
+		go func() {
+			defer wg.Done()
+
+			err := store.Store(approval2)
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+
+			secondIndexErr = store.Index(approval1.Body.ExecutionResultID, approval1.Body.ChunkIndex, approval2.ID())
+		}()
+
+		// Wait for both goroutines to finish
+		wg.Wait()
+
+		// Check that one of the Index operations succeeded and the other failed
+		if firstIndexErr == nil {
+			require.Error(t, secondIndexErr)
+			require.True(t, errors.Is(secondIndexErr, storage.ErrDataMismatch))
+		} else {
+			require.NoError(t, secondIndexErr)
+			require.True(t, errors.Is(firstIndexErr, storage.ErrDataMismatch))
+		}
+	})
+}