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The film begins with a young girl, Rupa (Sabina), driving her car madly around the hills of [[Mussoorie]] at midnight and halting at The Park Hotel, before she rushes inside and mysteriously falls to her death from the third floor of it, clutching something in her hand. Her death is assumed to be suicide by everyone among the curious onlookers, including Ruby ([[Helen (actress)|Helen]]), a dancer, and Rocky ([[Shammi Kapoor]]), a drummer at The Park Hotel. One year later, Rupa's ex-fiancée, Ramesh ([[Prem Chopra]]), is shown to be trying to fix his marriage with Rupa's grieving younger sister, Sunita ([[Asha Parekh]]), who is not as enamoured of the proposal though Ramesh tries to ingratiate himself with her. Sunita reveals to her friend, Meena ([[Laxmi Chhaya]]), that Rupa had written a letter to her on the night of her death, confessing that she was deeply in love with Rocky, the drummer at The Park Hotel, and implying that they had sexual relations, and that she desperately needs to marry him. Sunita believes that Rocky had seduced and then betrayed her sister which led her to commit suicide, and intends to travel to [[Dehradun]] and Mussoorie and track down Rocky to avenge her sister's death.  

Sunita invites Anil and his "uncle" to meet with her father (Raj Mehra) and discuss their marriage. Anil requests Kunwarsahab to reveal the truth about him to Sunita and her father, explaining that Rupa had deeply fallen in love with him during her vacations in The Park Hotel in Mussoorie. She aggressively pursued him despite his disinterest in her and her engagement with Ramesh, who became extremely furious at this and threatened to kill Rupa in front of Anil. On the night before her fall, Rupa had telephoned Anil, telling him that she desperately needs to meet him, but Anil had refused to open the door of his room when Rupa banged on it at midnight, pleading him to let her in. A few moments later, Anil was shocked to hear Rupa's deadly fall from the third floor of The Park Hotel. As Kunwarsahab keeps up the pretense instead and agrees on the alliance, Anil, with no other option left, writes a letter to Sunita, revealing that he is none other than her enemy, Rocky, but that he never seduced her sister and had absolutely no idea that she would kill herself over him. Sunita is aghast when she reads the letter and severes ties with Rocky. As he unsuccessfully tries to pursue and convince Sunita, Anil is approached by an investigating police officer, Inspector Das ([[Iftekhar]]), who reveals to him that Rupa had not jumped off the third floor of The Park Hotel out of desperation, but was cold-bloodedly thrown off to her death in reality.  

Shocked at learning this, Anil suspects Ruby to be Rupa's murderer as she had intercepted his telephone call with Rupa and was always jealous of any other girl coming close to Anil. He confronts Ruby and tries to make her confess her crime, but an unknown assailant climbs up to the third floor of The Park Hotel through the drainpipe, and shoots Ruby fatally right in front of Anil's eyes. Ruby dies in Anil's arms and Inspector Das takes him into police custody, warning Anil that the shooter was aiming for him, not Ruby, since he believes that Anil is getting close to discovering the real killer. He shows Anil an expensive overcoat button discovered in Rupa's hand as evidence, which he believes she tore off the killer's overcoat during a scuffle between them both. Anil then suspects Ramesh to be Rupa's murderer but the latter denies the accusation from Inspector Das, although he was present at The Park Hotel on the night Rupa died, and is also seen secretly bribing someone dressed as Ruby's killer with a bottle of whiskey. Meanwhile, a mysterious woman (Neeta) visits Anil at his hotel room, instructing him to take her car to a restaurant at the bottom of the hill, where he will find the conspirators. Anil does so, but finds out while driving that the car has faulty brakes, and jumps out of the car as it plummets down a cliff.  

Presumed dead by everyone, Anil secretly visits Sunita, convinced that Ramesh killed both Rupa and Ruby and is now trying to kill him. He enlists the help of Sunita, who now believes his innocence and takes him to meet Ramesh at The Park Hotel. While Sunita is away, Anil discovers the same mysterious woman having released him in the car with faulty brakes and pursues her. He is surprised to witness her drive into the mansion of Kunwarsahab, who is shocked at seeing Anil there and insists that he is not safe anywhere and must stay with him in the night. He forcefully takes Anil into an old room in his mansion and instructs him to stay there till morning. After Kunwarsahab's departure, Anil begrudgingly goes through a closet in the room, searching for clothes to change into, when he is shocked to come across an overcoat of Kunwarsahab, with the exact same buttons that Inspector Das had shown him and the overcoat is also missing a button. Realising that the killer of both Rupa and Ruby is none other than Kunwarsahab, Anil feigns an escape through the window, just as Kunwarsahab and the mysterious woman, Sabina, who is his girlfriend and a widow with two children, enter the room to kill Anil in his sleep.  

While Kunwarsahab leaves to search for him, Anil gets hold of Sabina and threatens her at knifepoint. He telephones at the police station, and Sabina confesses to Inspector Das that Kunwarsahab had an extramarital affair with her which his wife discovered and attempted to shoot her, but Kunwarsahab tackled his wife by accidentally shooting her dead in the process. Kunwarsahab and Sabina were burying the dead body of Kunwarsahab's wife in a secluded place, when Rupa happened to witness them as she was on her way to meet Anil. She escaped to The Park Hotel with Kunwarsahab and Sabina in pursuit and banged on the door of Anil's room, pleading him to let her in. However, Anil was unaware of her predicament and refused to open the door for her, causing Kunwarsahab to pick up Rupa and ruthlessly throw her off the third floor of The Park Hotel to her death. At that very moment, Kunwarsahab returns to his mansion and shoots Sabina, killing her. He then attempts to kill Anil and pursues him up to the roof, but goes over the ledge of his mansion in the struggle. Anil holds onto Kunwarsahab, asking him to surrender himself to the police having arrived at the scene, but Kunwarsahab chooses to die and lets go of Anil's hand, falling to his death from the third floor of his mansion. The film ends with Anil and Sunita returning to [[Delhi]] from the same train where they met the first time.