Nadesh Ralley v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Nadesh Ralley, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals final order of removal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence and grant the petition only if the record compels a result contrary to the Board’s. Parussimova v. Mukasey, 555 F.3d 734, 738-39 (9th Cir.2009).

Substantial evidence supports the Board’s denial of asylum and its ruling that Ralley failed to establish that imputr ed political opinion was one central reason for his mistreatment by police. Id. at 740-41 (the petitioner must establish that a protected ground is one central reason for the police’s interest in him); Dinu v. Ashcroft, 372 F.3d 1041, 1044 (9th Cir.2004) (the presumption of imputed political opinion arises if petitioner establishes “that the purported criminal investigation had no bona fíde objective, so that political persecution must have been the real the reason for” the investigation). The agency’s finding that police arrested and questioned Ralley because they believed that he had business information about suspected terrorists who were customers of the public pay phone business operated by Ralley…