Singh

MEMORANDUM **

Rajinder Singh, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence the agency’s adverse credibility determination, Tekle v. Mukasey, 533 F.3d 1044, 1051 (9th Cir.2008), and we deny the petition for review.

Even if he had timely filed his asylum application, substantial evidence supports the agency’s adverse credibility determination because Singh omitted from his asylum application that police electrocuted him during his first arrest, see Husyev v. Mukasey, 528 F.3d 1172, 1181-83 (9th Cir.2008), and did not mention the electrocution or the use of a roller on his legs at his asylum interview, but instead testified that he was held in solitary confinement and deprived of food and water, see Li v. Ashcroft, 378 F.3d 959, 962-63 (9th Cir.2004) (omissions and inconsistencies that go to the heart of petitioner’s claim support an adverse credibility finding). Singh…