No election shall be called in qu¢stJOn except by an election pelition presented in accor4ancc with_these rules.
~5. Officer to whom the petition should be presented.-A petition calling in question the validity of an election or the return of a particuar Candidate may be presented rn writing to the District Judge of the district w·rthi~ whrch the election has been held (or where there is no Di~trict Judge to such Judicial Officer as the State Goverhmcnt may appoint in this behalf) within seven days after ~w date on which the result of the election was dcclar~d, either by a person who was a candidate at the clectrqn or hy not less than five persons entitled to vote at the s<u~ election :
hovidcd that no such petition ~;hall be presented on the ground either that the name of any person qualified to vote hrs heen omitted from the electoral roll or that the name Of any person not so qualified has been inserted in the roll