NEW DELHI: Auto shares were trading in the red in Monday's session.

Shares of Ashok Leyland (down 7.0 per cent) , TVS Motor Company (down 6.28 per cent) , Maruti Suzuki (down 6.21 per cent) , Bajaj Auto (down 4.76 per cent) , Motherson Sumi Systems (down 4.38 per cent) , Eicher Motors (down 4.32 per cent) , Tata Motors (down 4.03 per cent), Hero MotoCorp (down 3.87 per cent) , Bosch (down 3.74 per cent) , Mahindra & Mahindra (down 2.65 per cent) , MRF (down 2.29 per cent) , Bharat Forge (down 1.35 per cent) , Amara Raja Batteries (down 1.17 per cent) and Exide Industries (down 1.16 per cent) were the top losers in the index.

The Nifty Auto index was trading 4.28 per cent down at 5499.65 around 12:01PM.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 256.90 points at 8879.95, while the BSE Sensex was down 887.72 points at 30210.01.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 8 were trading in the green, while 42 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, BHEL, Vedanta , SBI, ICICI Bank, BEL, Ashok Leyland, Tata Motors, Axis Bank and Federal Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.