TVS Motor Company(up 1.3 per cent) were among the top gainers.
Bharat Forge(down 1.42 per cent), Amara Raja Batteries(down 1.31 per cent), Exide Industries(down 1.2 per cent), Eicher Motors(down 1.09 per cent) and Bosch(down 1.07 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Auto index was down 0.52 per cent at 11249.95 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 57.95 points at 17357.1, while the BSE Sensex was down 181.16 points at 58159.83.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 8 were trading in the green, while 42 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, Tata Power, Zomato Ltd., PNB and Coal India Ltd were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of Sarthak Metals, Bajaj Healthcare, Dhruv Consultancy, R Systems Intnl and Latent View Analytics Ltd. hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Nidan Laboratories And Healthcare Ltd., Destiny Logistics & Infra Ltd., Quadpro ITeS Ltd., Radha Madhav and Colgate-Palmolive hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.