Maruti Suzuki (up 0.49 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Bharat Forge (down 3.49 per cent), TIINDIA (down 2.69 per cent), Ashok Leyland (down 2.48 per cent), Balkrishna Industries (down 2.08 per cent) and Tata Motors (down 1.87 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Auto index was down 1.15 per cent at 9952.05 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 88.75 points at 16480.1, while the BSE Sensex was down 212.68 points at 55416.81.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 9 were trading in the green, while 41 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, SAIL, YES Bank, Suzlon Energy and NALCO were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Nakoda Group Of Ind, Deep Industries Ltd., Fortis Healthcare, MindTree and KKV Agro Powers Ltd. hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Ujjivan SFB, CarTrade Tech Ltd., Vertoz Advertising, Radha Madhav and Krsnaa Diagnostics Ltd. hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.
