Stock market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty declined on Monday amid selling in blue-chip IT firms and profit-taking after the recent sharp rally in equities.

At 10:40 hours, the 30-share benchmark index was trading at 80688.65 down by -310.75 points or by -0.38 % and then NSE Nifty was at 24927.25 down by -59.15 points or by -0.24 %.

Sensex touched intraday high of 81339.41 and intraday low of 80519.31 The NSE Nifty touched intraday high of 25084.05 and intraday low of 24874.85

The top gainers of the BSE Sensex pack were State Bank of India (Rs. 1036.60,+1.96%), NTPC Ltd. (Rs. 325.70,+0.76%), ICICI Bank Ltd. (Rs. 1576.30,+0.66%), Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Rs. 1922.60,+0.39%), HDFC Bank Ltd. (Rs. 786.20,+0.26%), among others.

The top losers of the BSE Sensex pack were HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1406.40,-2.54%), Tata Steel Ltd. (Rs. 185.05,-2.35%), Infosys Ltd. (Rs. 1147.80,-2.06%), UltraTech Cement Ltd. (Rs. 12281.65,-1.83%), Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Rs. 2047.75,-1.70%), among others.

HCS index was at 53352.2 up by 849.73 points or by 1.62%. IOL Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (Rs. 211.10,+14.54%), Aarti Drugs Ltd. (Rs. 505.35,+12.25%), Sun Pharma Advanced Research Company Ltd. (Rs. 214.70,+8.98%), Sai Life Science Ltd. (Rs. 1878.80,+7.67%), GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (Rs. 2720.95,+7.17%),.

TECk index was at 16310.77 down by -276.69 points or by -1.67%. HFCL Ltd. (Rs. 206.05,-4.98%), Mphasis Ltd. (Rs. 2444.50,-3.56%), Bharti Hexacom Ltd. (Rs. 1661.95,-2.79%), Vodafone Idea Ltd. (Rs. 12.47,-2.65%), HCL Technologies Ltd. (Rs. 1406.40,-2.54%),.

The Market breadth, indicating the overall strength of the market, was weak. On BSE out of total shares traded 4201 , shares advanced were 1644 while 2326 shares declined and 231 were unchanged.