Legal Opinion
Ashok Chand Premila Mudaliar Chand v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 2, 2000No. 98-70541PublishedCited by 236 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Ashok Chand seeks review of the BIA’s decision denying his claim for asylum and withholding of deportation. We grant Chand’s petition for review and hold that he is eligible for asylum. 2
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Chand is a Hindu Indian from Fiji who worked as a foreman in a shop of cabinet makers; he was not politically active. He lived in a small village on the island of Latouka. Two-thirds of the people in the village were ethnic Fijians while the other one-third were Indian Fijians. The village was run by a chief who was a good friend of Chand’s father. The chief afforded…
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