Singh

MEMORANDUM **

Baldev Singh, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) summary affirmance of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 , and we deny the petition for review.

Singh’s due process and regulatory challenges to the BIA’s streamlining of his case are foreclosed by Falcon Carriche v. Ashcroft, 350 F.3d 845, 852, 855 (9th Cir. 2003).

The IJ’s adverse credibility finding regarding Singh is supported by substantial evidence in the record. See Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1244 (9th Cir.2000). Singh’s testimony about his abrupt departure from Jalandhar in 1995 is contradicted by a letter from his Gurudwara there, *141 which states that he “participated in religious and political activities” until 1997. This inconsistency goes to the heart of Singh’s asylum claim that he fled persecution by police, and therefore suffices to uphold the adverse credibility determination. See De Leon-Barrios v. INS, 116 F.3d 391 , 394 (9th Cir.1997); see also Wang v. INS, 352 F.3d 1250,…