A bus driver shut off the indoor lights of his bus late one night, refused to open the doors and asked a lone passenger if he could kiss her hand. Fearing for her life the woman, who was an international student, offered up her hand. Driver Kartik Kamiesh Kumar kissed it before rubbing the 46-year-old woman’s breast - an act for which he was charged with indecent assault. Kumar denied the charge in a judge-alone trial in the Waitakere District Court yesterday, claiming he had grabbed the victim’s wrist because he thought she stole something. But Judge Terry Singh ruled the charge was proven as he found the victim’s story was “consistent” with the bus’s CCTV footage, while Kumar’s evidence was “self-serving”. An international student boards a bus The victim appeared via audio visual link from her home country and was assisted by a translator who was present in court. She said last year she was a student at an English language school in the Auckland CBD.…