 Raj Saxena is in love with fellow collegian, Rati Verma, and both want to get married. Rati introduces Raj to her father, Major Verma, who, after finding out about Raj s background, decides to have nothing to do with him. For the Saxena family carries a stigma against their name - that of cowardice, betrayal, and corruption - which former Police Inspector Anand R. Saxena, Raj s dad, was accused of. Raj is humiliated by Verma s treatment, and swears to clear his father s name by joining the police force. What Raj does not know that in so doing, he has made himself a puppet in the hands of the very people who branded and stigmatized his father.