can a breach of the obligation imposed on the State be waived by any person
the judgment of the Constitution Bench of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India in the case of Basheshar Nath Vs. Commissioner of Income Tax, New Delhi and Rajasthan and Another reported in AIR 1959 Supreme Court 149 (V46 C 22), the Apex Court ruled as follows:
“14. Such being the true intent and effect of Art. 14 the question arises, can a breach of the obligation imposed on the State be waived by any person? In the face of such an unequivocal admonition administered by the Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, it is open to the State to disobey the Constitutional mandate merely because a person tells the State that it may do so? If the Constitution asks the State as to why the State did not carry out its behest, Page 13 of 37 W.P.No.2191 of 2015 will it be any answer for the State to make that “true, you directed me not to deny any person equality before the law, but this person said that I could do so, for he had no objection to my doing it.” I do not think the State will be in any better position than the position in which Adam found himself when God asked him as to why he had eaten the forbidden fruit and the State's above answer will be as futile as was that of Adam who pleaded that the woman had tempted him and so he ate the forbidden fruit. It seems to us absolutely clear, on the language of Art. 14 that it is a command issued by the Constitution to the State as a matter of public policy with a view to implement its object of ensuring the equality of status and opportunity which every Welfare State, such as India, is by her Constitution expected to do and no person can, by any act or conduct, relieve the State of the solemn obligation imposed on it by the Constitution. Whatever breach of other fundamental right a person or a citizen may or may not waive, he cannot certainly give up or waive a breach of the fundamental right that is indirectly conferred on him by this constitutional mandate directed to the State.”