Chandi

MEMORANDUM

Hardeep Singh, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order summarily affirming an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, Rostomian v. INS, 210 F.3d 1088, 1089 (9th Cir.2000), and we dismiss in part and deny in part the petition for review.

We lack jurisdiction to consider Singh’s contention that he was persecuted on account of his membership in the particular social group comprised of his family because he failed to exhaust this contention before the BIA. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 677-78 (9th Cir.2004).

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s decision that Singh failed to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear based on a protected ground because the record reflects both that the police interrogated Singh overnight as part of a bona fide investigation of Singh’s son’s association with alleged terrorists, see Dinu v. Ashcroft, 372 F.3d 1041, 1043-44 (9th Cir.2004), and that the alleged…