The first conviction in the Priyantha Kumara lynching case has come from the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) where a suspect, identified as Adnan has been awarded one-year imprisonment, The Nation reports on January 21. According to details, Adnan justified the lynching of Priyantha Kumara at the Sialkot factory on social media and later confessed to his crime before the court. The ATC judge while announcing the verdict awarded him one year of imprisonment besides also imposing a fine of PKR 10,000. Priyantha Kumara, a Sri Lankan national, was lynched by a mob at a factory in Sialkot (Punjab) on December 3, 2021, where he worked as manager.