According to data with the regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), foreign institutional investors Monday bought shares worth $68.2 million.

Other important Asian markets were trading mixed.

The Nikkei, a key index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, closed 242.27 points lower at 10,202.06 points.

At the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the benchmark SSE Composite was ruling 1.17 percent up at 2,384.62 points.

The primary index of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Hang Seng, was in the red at 20,932.20 points, down 229.22 points or 1.08 percent.

Major European markets were ruling in the negative terrain.

In Britain, the FTSE 100 index was ruling 0.74 percent lower at 4,974.15 points, while its French peer, the CAC 40, was down 1.05 percent percent at 3,695.53 points.

Germany's DAX was also ruling in the negative at 5,570.93 points, down 0.94 percent.