According to data with the regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), foreign institutional investors bought shares worth $12.1 million Friday.

Trading at other important Asian markets was mixed.

The Nikkei, a key index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, closed 27.53 points or 0.27 percent lower at 10,187.11 points.

But at the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the benchmark SSE composite shut shop 0.58 percent up at 2,861.61 points.

Similarly, the primary index of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Hang Seng, also ended in the green at 20,318.62 points, up 556.94 points or 2.82 percent.

European exchanges were ruling firm.

In Britain, the FTSE 100 index was ruling 1.13 percent higher at 4,851.17 points, while its French peer, the CAC 40, was also up 0.69 percent at 3,577.86 points.

Germany's DAX was ruling in the positive at 5,353.91 points, up 0.99 percent.