Due to continued selling action in several blue chip stocks, the Sensex remained weak during late afternoon trade today.
Stocks cutting across sectors have taken a beating and those from banking, realty, information technology and metal stocks were among the worst hit.
BSE Midcap and Smallcap index fell 2.25% and 2.44% respectively.
Among the sectoral indices, BSE Bankex plummeted 6.25%, BSE Realty tumbled 6.22%, IT declined 5.46% and Metal came down by 5.23%.