Mordovets

MEMORANDUM

Baljinder Kaur and Gurbir Singh, natives and citizens of India, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying their application for withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, Singh-Kaur v. INS, 183 F.3d 1147, 1149-50 (9th Cir. 1999), and we deny the petition.

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s finding that Kaur’s testimony that the police killed her father in 1991 was inconsistent with the affidavit from her town’s sarpanch which stated that terrorists killed her father in 1999. See Pal v. INS, 204 F.3d 935, 938 (9th Cir.2000) (inconsistencies between testimony and documentary evidence support an adverse credibility finding). Substantial evidence also supports the agency’s finding that Kaur omitted from her asylum application declaration that police beat her four times during her first arrest, and that police arrested her a second time because she filed a complaint about the police to a human rights organization. See Li v. Ashcroft, 378 F.3d 959, 962-64…