Shares of TVS Motor Company Ltd.(up 1.41 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.
On the other hand, Hero MotoCorp Ltd.(down 2.72 per cent), Sona BLW Precision Forgings Ltd.(down 2.46 per cent), Samvardhana Motherson International Ltd.(down 2.37 per cent), Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.(down 2.17 per cent) and Tube Investments of India Ltd.(down 1.44 per cent) finished as the top losers of the day.
The Nifty Auto index closed 0.99 per cent down at 15832.85.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index ended down 141.15 points at 19512.35, while the BSE Sensex stood down 483.24 points at 65512.39.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 6 ended in the green, while 43 closed in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, Infibeam Avenues, Suzlon Energy, JP Power and YES Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
Shares of ITI Ltd, Eimco Elecon, CARE Ratings, Oriental Hotels and Manoj Vaibhav Gems N hit their fresh 52-week highs in today's trade, while Steel Exchange, Ace Integrated Solut, SVP Global, ideaForge Technology and Shree Ram Proteins hit their fresh 52-week lows.