According to data with the regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), foreign institutional investors sold shares worth $117 million Thursday.

Trading at other important Asian markets was mixed.

The Nikkei, a key index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, closed 65.82 points or 0.64 percent lower at 10,214.64 points.

But at the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the benchmark SSE composite shut shop 4.79 percent up at 2,845.02 points.

Similarly, the primary index of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Hang Seng, also ended in the green at 19,761.7 points, up 239.68 points or 1.23 percent.

Trading at major European exchanges was lacklustre.

In Britain, the FTSE 100 index was ruling only 0.03 percent higher at 4,818.81 points, while its French peer, the CAC 40, was also up 0.03 percent at 3,574.12 points.

Germany's DAX was ruling in the positive at 5,327.79 points, up 0.15 percent.