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19. In order to substantiate this point, learned counsel for the Petitioner submits that wherever the Rule making Authority intended that the method of recruitment was to be through the mode of an objective test and interview, it was so specifically stipulated in the Recruitment Rules. As an illustration, it is pointed out that for the posts of Process Server, Peon, Chowkidar and Mali, the method of recruitment, as notified, is through an objective test and interview. However, wherever the intent was to recruit through an examination, other than objective, words were carefully drafted and 'written test' was prescribed. As against the two posts in question in the present petition, Recruitment Rules clearly prescribe 'written test' and 'competitive examination' as method of recruitment and therefore, the Respondents cannot equate 'written' test with 'objective' test. It is therefore contended that the impugned action is arbitrary, illegal and void ab initio, being against the Recruitment Rules and thus the process of selection, post the skill test, vitiates and deserves to be quashed.