Section 13(3)(e) in Madras Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act, 1951
(e)if he has been sentenced by a criminal court to transportation or to imprisonment for a period of more than six months, for any offence other than an offences not involving moral turpitude such sentence not having been cancelled of reduced to a period of six months or less or the offence not having been pardoned, provided that the Government may direct that such sentence shall not operate as a disqualification.