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Jaswinder Singh KAHLON, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 08-72246.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted July 12, 2011.
    
    Filed July 19, 2011.
    Patrick Ontiveros Cantor, Esquire, But-tar & Cantor, LLP, Tukwila, WA, for Petitioner.
    
      Oil, William Charles Peachey, Senior Litigation Counsel, Mona Maria Yousif, Trial, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Wws-District Counsel, Esquire, Immigration and Naturalization Service Office of the District Counsel, Seattle, WA, for Respondent.
    Before: SCHROEDER, ALARCÓN, and LEAVY, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Jaswinder Singh Kahlon, 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 withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence the agency’s factual findings, Santos-Lemus v. Mukasey, 542 F.3d 738, 742 (9th Cir.2008), and deny the petition for review.

The IJ found Kahlon demonstrated past persecution by police on the basis of a protected ground. The IJ next found the presumption Kahlon’s life or freedom would be threatened upon return to India was rebutted by Kahlon’s testimony indicating that, by 1997, police only sought to arrest him to extort money from his father. Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s finding that the evidence demonstrated Kahlon was no longer being sought on the basis of a protected ground. See 8 C.F.R. § 1208.16(b)(l)(i)(A); see also INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481 n. 1, 112 S.Ct. 812, 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992) (to reverse the agency’s finding “we must find that the evidence not only supports that conclusion, but compels it”) (emphasis in original). Accordingly, Kahlon’s withholding of removal claim fails.

Substantial evidence also supports the IJ’s finding that Kahlon failed to demonstrate it is more likely than not he would be tortured, because he relocated to another part of the country for seven years without harm. See 8 C.F.R. § 1208.16(c)(3)(ii); Singh v. Gonzales, 439 F.3d 1100, 1113 (9th Cir.2006) (petitioner failed to meet his burden of demonstrating he could not relocate to another part of India where police are not under the mistaken impression he is a separatist). Accordingly, Kahlon’s CAT claim also fails.

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.