Last month, the government had offloaded 93.3 million shares representing 9.33% of total equity of the company at an average price of Rs 61.33 per share through offer-for-sale, the BSE data shows.
The stock of state-owned trading company has tanked 73% from Rs 218 on June 12, 2013 after the Government of India fixed the share sale price at Rs 60 per share, a huge discount to prevailing market price.
A combined 276,393 shares have changed hands on the counter so far and there are pending sell orders for 5.19 million shares on BSE and NSE at 1022 hours.'
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