India, Aug. 12 -- The Supreme Court on Monday underlined that high court judges enjoy equal place under the Constitution and are not inferior to Supreme Court judges in any way as the court directed a petitioner who made scurrilous remarks against a Telangana high court judge to file his unconditional apology before the high court, leaving it open for the judge to accept the same.

A bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Bhushan R Gavai said, "Under the Constitutional scheme, judges of high courts are in no way inferior to judges of the Supreme Court." The court said that as an appellate court, although the Supreme Court has powers to affirm, modify or reverse a decision of the high court, it has no administrative control over the ...