Onkar Singh v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Onkar Singh, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, Ahmed v. Keisler, 504 F.3d 1183, 1191 (9th Cir.2007), and we deny the petition for review.

Singh testified that police beat him in the course of interrogating him about the whereabouts of his good friend, who was a member of a terrorist group. Substantial evidence supports the agency’s finding that Singh failed to establish that the police were motivated by an imputed political opinion. See Dinu v. Ashcroft, 372 F.3d 1041, 1044-45 (9th Cir.2004) (petitioner bears the burden of showing a police investigation has “no bona fide objective”); see also Parussimova v. Mukasey, 555 F.3d 734, 740 (9th Cir.2009) (the REAL ID Act “requires that a protected ground represent ‘one central reason’ for an asylum applicant’s persecution”). Because Singh did not establish past persecution, he is not entitled to a…