India, Feb. 6 -- The Lokpal has ruled that complaints against public servants cannot be based on "hearsay", and must be supported by an affidavit from the complainant, while dismissing a disproportionate assets complaint against former Union minister and ex-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti.

Terming the allegations against Jyoti as "unsubstantiated" and "unfounded", the anticorruption watchdog rejected the complaint in an order passed on January 29.

In its order, a full bench of the Lokpal headed by justice AM Khanwilkar said, "...the allegations levelled by the complainant against Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti for having acquired disproportionate assets than the known sources of her income during the relevant period...