Singh

MEMORANDUM **

Kamaljit Singh, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the Board *533 of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) order denying his applications for asylum and withholding of deportation. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1105a. 1 Where the BIA adopts in part the IJ’s decision, as here, we review both the BIA’s and the IJ’s decisions for substantial evidence. See De Leon-Barrios v. INS, 116 F.3d 391 , 393 (9th Cir.1997). We grant the petition.

Singh testified that he was a member of the All India Sikh Students Federation (“AISSF”) in the Punjab province of India. Police arrested Singh after an AISSF meeting and, during a three-day interrogation, beat and kicked him until he provided the names of two other AISSF members. Authorities never brought charges against Singh. A few days after village leaders secured his release, Singh fled to Delhi and made arrangements to leave the country. Police came to Singh’s father’s house to inquire about his whereabouts, and the AISSF president warned Singh in Delhi that the police would continue to arrest him in order to extract more AISSF members’…