65 percent at Rs.2,201.20; Jaiprakash Associates, down 2.57 percent at Rs.216.35; and Maruti Suzuki, down 2.27 percent at Rs.1,510.85.

According to data with the regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), foreign institutional investors sold shares worth $62.1 million Wednesday.

Other important Asian markets ended on a mixed note.

The Nikkei, a key index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, closed 249.6 or 2.37 percent lower at 10,280.46 points.

At the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the benchmark SSE composite shut shop 1.16 percent up at 2,714.97 points.

The primary index of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Hang Seng, also ended in a slump at 19,522 points, down 350.3 points or 1.76 percent.

Major European exchanges were ruling in the red after opening weak. In Britain, the FTSE 100 index was ruling 0.13 percent lower at 4,813.6 points, while its French peer, the CAC 40, was down 0.51 percent at 3,565.17 points.

Germany's DAX was ruling negative at 5,306.58 points, down 0.39 percent.