In a murder or hurt case in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the first few hours leave behind a small set of papers: the murasila, the injury sheet, the inquest report, the medico-legal certificate, the OPD chit, the FIR, the site plan and the post-mortem report. Most trials are decided on whether these papers agree with each other and with the witnesses.

This research paper studies 100 reported judgments of the Supreme Court and the Peshawar High Court from 1978 to 2026: fifty on the murasila, the scribe and the proceedings at the spot and the hospital, and fifty on medical evidence, the doctor, the post-mortem and the dying declaration. It adds 124 practical points for a lawyer recording or testing evidence.

The recent decisions read the scribe, the doctor and the investigating officer against the clock: when the injured arrived, when the murasila was written, when the doctor examined, and whether the times fit.

For the defence: prepare a one-page timeline from the exhibits; test the scribe on the order of documents and on what the complainant did not say; test the doctor on arrival, history, consciousness and the register; and do not rely on a single irregularity. The cases that succeed show several pointing the same way.

For the prosecution: produce every link (the scribe, the Moharrir, the carrier, the doctors and the marginal witnesses) and put the OPD chit and the register on record.

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