Singh

MEMORANDUM **

Jagtar Singh, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals summarily affirming an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence the IJ’s adverse credibility finding, see Wang v. INS, 352 F.3d 1250, 1253 (9th Cir.2003), and we deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s adverse credibility determination, which was based on numerous significant discrepancies within Singh’s testimony and between Singh’s testimony and documentary evidence. See id. at 1258 . The IJ noted, among other problems, that Singh’s testimony concerning when and how many times police subjected him to torture with a wooden roller was inconsistent and that Singh provided widely varying testimony about who was home when he was arrested for the third time, who was arrested with him, and whether his fellow arrestees were detained.

Because the IJ provided these and other specific, cogent reasons for her adverse credibility determination, we…