NEW DELHI: Several stocks plunged in excess of 5 per cent in Mumbai trading on Thursday even as equity benchmark BSE Sensex traded 702.43 points down at 80894.2 amid brisk selling in frontline bluechip counters.
On the BSE, Aditya Birla Retail(down 66.13 per cent), Sai Swami Metals and(down 19.70 per cent), KG Petrochem(down 12.52 per cent), Thirani Projects(down 11.69 per cent) and Alfavision Over(down 11.51 per cent) were among the stocks that plunged over 5 per cent during the session.
In the Nifty pack, 4 stocks traded in the green, while 46 stocks traded in the red.
The Nifty index was trading 216.0 points down at 24597.45.
On the BSE, Aditya Birla Retail, R K Swamy, Sybly Ind, Inter Globe Fin and Sunshine Capital hit their fresh 52-week lows, while Addi Industries, VRL Logistics, Paramone Concepts, Timex Group and Interarch Building touched their fresh 52-week highs.
