Wow, I thought American real estate developers were scumbags. They’ve got nothing on Indian developer Kashinath Jaiswal who pumped natural gas into the bedroom of a guy whose lot he was trying to buy to tear down and build on. In the middle of the night the gas was ignited.

Here’s what the Times of India has on it:

It transpires that Jaiswal, who lives in a flat next door, was trying to get the plot vacated. While some of the tenants agreed to leave, others like Bahadur Shaw, the man whose room was gassed, refused to budge. Shaw’s extended family occupied three rooms in the corner of the courtyard; his was the cornermost room where he lived with his wife Kewla and daughter Deepika, while the adjacent tenements were occupied by his brothers.

Wednesday being Bengal bandh, Shaw — a confectionery supplier — prepared for a busy Thursday. Before turning in that night, he piled up his baked goods near the entrance, planning to make an early start. But around 3.30 am on Thursday, people in the neighbourhood woke up to Shaw’s screams. They rushed out to find him in the courtyard, his body engulfed in flames. “I rubbed my eyes and tried my best to snuff out the flames. Then I looked inside the room, and saw Shaw’s wife and daughter lying charred on the bed,” said neighbour Javed Ali.

While Kewla was dead, Deepika is barely alive. A search led cops to a two-feet wide drain between the plot in contention and the adjacent one where Jaiswal lived — the drain passed right behind Shaw’s room, which had an opening for waste water to pass into the drain. The cops found an LPG cylinder in the drain with its hose sticking into Shaw’s room through the small opening. The cylinder was empty.

Jebus, what a evil f*ck. He makes Donald Trump look like a saint.

Link [Times of India] came via a tip from my pal Michael