Following the death of Darvesh Ghulam Qadir in 1999, private individuals constituted the Sain Miran Baba Trust on March 8, 2000, claiming to act in accordance with his last wishes. Dispute erupted when the Jammu and Kashmir Wakaf Council declared the shrine a Wakaf property and directed the local Wakaf Administrator to take charge through a communication dated June 23, 2010. Subsequently, the Department of Haj and Auqaf issued SRO 77 on January 25, 2019, formally notifying the shrine property as a Wakaf under the Jammu and Kashmir Wakaf Act, 2001. Justice Parihar observed that decades of continuous public reverence turned the site into a Wakaf by user under Section 3 of the Jammu and Kashmir Wakaf Act, 2001. The provision does not confer any adjudicatory power upon the Chairman to determine the legal character of a property as being, or not being, a Wakaf property”.