[1][2] Hamid Gada's father, Khaliq Bhatt, worked at the Kheer Bhawani temple at Tulmulla, Ganderbal, as a watchman, at one of the most sacred shrines for Kashmiri Hindus.
[1] Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal, in a Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group publication, wrote about the circumstance under which Gada joined militancy:[4] In 1992, two terrorists arrived in the village, determined to burn out the temple.
Whatever the truth, the teenager who saved Tulamulla temple went on to become one of the most feared leaders of HM.In another version of his life, it is written that, "since childhood Hameed was fascinated by this spring[c].
[citation needed] It is said he had many reasons to hate the Indian security forces, but the "most obvious one being that they didn't protect him and his family when he sought their help to escape the wrath of 'extreme' militants.
[d] From that day on wards, people started calling him 'Hameed Gada', Hamid The Fish.Gada and his men were responsible for the killing of police, military personnel, pro-India militants and Kashmiri Pandits.
On Shab-e-Qadar, one of the holiest days in the Islamic calendar, 25 January, Gada and his men were responsible for the killing of non-migrant 26 Kashmiri Pandits, including women and children.
Its sheer brutality, and the inflammatory nature of the pamphlets left at the site, showed that Gada's group had been hijacked by cadre from Pakistan, who are more rabidly communal than most Kashmiri terrorists", writes Indian journalist Praveen Swami.
It was only on 13 March 2000 when a Kashmiri Muslim police constable tipped off the JKP Special Operations Group Ganderbal office with precise information about Gada's location in Shiekhpora village, Badgam.