Singh

MEMORANDUM **

Amarjit Singh, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision summarily affirming the Immigration *155 Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal and for relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence an adverse credibility determination, Chebchoub v. INS, 257 F.3d 1038, 1042 (9th Cir.2001), and we deny the petition.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s adverse credibility finding. The IJ offered specific, cogent reasons for disbelieving him based on inconsistencies between his testimony to the asylum officer and his testimony before the IJ. See id. at 1043 . These inconsistencies went to the heart of the asylum claim, and included discrepancies regarding events leading up to his departure from India, the length of two detentions, the injuries he sustained while detained, when he fled his village, and when his membership began in the political party that was one basis of his persecution claim. See id.; Mejia-Paiz v. INS, 111 F.3d 720 (9th Cir.1997). Accordingly, Singh failed to…