Suman

MEMORANDUM **

Khushvir Singh Suman (“Suman”), lead petitioner, his wife, Savita Suman, and minor child Pundit Singh Suman, natives and citizens of India, and minor child Princess Suman, a native of the Philippines and citizen of India (collectively “petitioners”), petition for review for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision summarily affirming an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of their applications for asylum and withholding of removal, and request 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 finding and will uphold the IJ’s decision unless the evidence compels a contrary conclusion. Malhi v. INS, 336 F.3d 989, 992-93 (9th Cir.2003). We deny the petition.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s denial of petitioners’ asylum claim on the basis of an adverse credibility finding. Suman’s testimony and declaration statement that he experienced employment discrimination in April 1984 following the assassination of Indira Ghandi are directly eon *707 tradicted by the State Department’s report on country conditions, which states that Ghandi was…