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CHAND v. I.N.S.

No. 98-70541.

222 F.3d 1066 (2000)

Ashok CHAND; Premila Mudaliar Chand, Petitioners, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 2, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miguel D. Gadda, San Francisco, California, for the petitioner.

Nancy E. Friedman, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.

Before: POLITZ, REINHARDT, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

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

I.

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...

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