Balkrishna Industries (up 0.4 per cent) were among the top gainers.
TVS Motor Company (down 3.57 per cent), Maruti Suzuki (down 2.5 per cent), Exide Industries (down 2.42 per cent), TIINDIA (down 2.15 per cent) and Amara Raja Batteries (down 1.97 per cent) were the top losers on the index.
The Nifty Auto index was down 1.4 per cent at 10060.2 at the time of writing this report.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 18.15 points at 17415.05, while the BSE Sensex was down 31.8 points at 58459.13.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 28 were trading in the green, while 22 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, SBI Cards, SAIL and ONGC were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of NDTV, RPG Life Sci, Sigma Solve, Shah Alloys and Xpro India hit their fresh 52-week highs in today’s trade, while Intnl Conveyors, Generic Engg, Aptus Value Housing Finance India Ltd., CarTrade Tech Ltd. and Krsnaa Diagnostics Ltd. hit fresh 52-week lows in trade.