( 1 ) AN election for Mandleshwar Municipality was held at Mandleshwar where the court of the District Judge is situate for the Civil District of West Nimar, mandleshwar is also within the Revenue District. Section 20 of the Madhya Pradesh municipalities Act, 1961, provides for filing an election petition. The section reads as under:

"20. Election petitions.-- (1) No election or selection under this Act shall be called into question except by a petition presented in accordance with the provisions of this section. (2) Such petition may be presented on one or more of the grounds specified in Section 22-- (a ). . . . . (b) (i ). . . . . (ii ). . . . . to the District Judge, where such election or selection is held within the revenue District in which the Court of the District judge is situate, and in any other case, to the Additional District Judge having the permanent seat of his Court within the revenue District in which such election or selection is held and if there be more than one such Additional District judge within the said revenue District, to such one of them as the district Judge may specify for the purpose (hereinafter such District judge or Additional Distric