Singh
Singh v. Gonzales
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Balbir Singh, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirming an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) order denying Singh’s 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.
We review for substantial evidence the decisions of the IJ and the BIA and will reverse only if the record compels a contrary conclusion. Singh-Kaur v. INS, 183 F.3d 1147,1149-50 (9th Cir.1999).
Singh sought asylum on the basis of police mistreatment of him in the Punjab due to his membership in the All India Sikh Student Federation. The IJ and BIA identified specific and cogent reasons for finding Singh’s testimony not credible. Specifically, the BIA found that the discrepancies between Singh’s affidavit and testimony regarding an alleged arrest in 1995 following his lecture at an AISSF event indicated that Singh had been “caught inventing aspects of his story” so that it would be “consistent with Sikh history.”