LUCKNOW, May 14 -- In a dramatic turn in a murder case from Lucknow's Kubhara village under Nagaram police station limits, police on Tuesday arrested a man whose attempt to cover up the crime unravelled due to a single slipper he accidentally left behind.

The accused, Mansharam, allegedly strangled his uncle, Mahesh Kori, 35, during a drunken fight and tried to shift blame onto another family by placing the body on a grave linked to a past family dispute. But investigators traced the mismatched footwear at the crime scene, one slipper belonging to Mansharam and the other to the victim, which ultimately led to his arrest, police said in a press conference on Wednesday.

According to deputy commissioner of police (DCP) South Nipun Agarwal,...