 Shekhar Kumar lives a solitary life and earns his living sculpting, as he is blind. One day he meets with lovely Kalpana Choudhry, both fall in love with each other, and eventually get married. After their marriage they decide to go on a cruise for their honeymoon. It is here that Shekhar finds out that Kalpana left him and went out one night with another male named Prem Oberoi, with whom she in love with at one time. When he confronts her and asks her if she married him out of pity, she denies it. The next day, Kalpana does not find Shekhar in his room and goes looking for him, and asks the ships  captain and crew for help. They do find Shekhar as well as Prem s dead body. Shekhar confesses that he had killed Prem, so he is held in custody and turned over to the police when the ship lands. In Court, Shekhar enters a guilty plea and asks for quick justice. Advocate Mathur is appointed as his defense lawyer, but gets no co-operation from Shekhar, as such Justice Rajvansh has now to decide whether Shekhar should hang or be sentenced in prison for life.