Shares of GVK Power & Infrastructure were locked in the 5 per cent upper circuit for the eight day at Rs 10.84 on the BSE on Tuesday.
In comparison, the S&P BSE Sensex was down 0.21 per cent at 65,884.
The stock of civil construction company was quoting at its highest level since September 2018.
A combined 9.6 million equity shares had changed hands on the BSE and NSE. There were pending buy orders for a combined 5.7 million on these exchanges, data shows.
In the past one month, it has zoomed 146 per cent from