Shares of Tata Motors (down 6.02 per cent), Ashok Leyland (down 3.80 per cent), Maruti Suzuki India (down 2.80 per cent) and TVS Motor Company (down 2.79 per cent) were the top losers in the index.
Motherson Sumi Systems (down 2.72 per cent), Exide Industries (down 2.54 per cent), Eicher Motors (down 2.18 per cent) and Bharat Forge (down 2.13 per cent) too were trading lower.
The Nifty Auto index was trading 2.36 per cent down at 6769.80 around 09:45 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 184.70 points at 10,812.65 while the BSE Sensex was down 595.90 points at 36,522.32.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 2 were trading in the green, while 48 were in the red.
Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, SBI, Ashok Leyland, Tata Motors, PNB, ICICI Bank, Dish TV India, Adani Power and Bank of Baroda were among the most traded shares on the NSE.
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