A further 2.37 million shares has been acquired by GMR Holdings Pvt Ltd, a promoter and holding company with the aim to raise its total holdings in the company to 73.57 percent, announced GMR Infrastructure ltd said on Wednesday.

The company also informed that through three block deals on the stock exchanges, the shares were acquired.

BSE data displayed that before the acquisition, GMR Holdings' share in GMR Infra was at 73.25 percent.

On the Mumbai market, shares in the company were trading at 62.25 rupees up 3.23 percent.