At close, the Sensex was down 1,023.63 points or 1.75% at 57,621.19, and the Nifty was down 302.70 points or 1.73% at 17,213.60 on increasing fears around hawkish outlook from global central banks and unabated rise in oil prices. L&T, HDFC Bank, Bajaj Finance, Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC), Bajaj Finserv, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Titan Company, ICICI Bank were among the top indexes draggers. On the flip side, stocks of Power Grid Corporation of India, NTPC, Tata Steel, State Bank of India (SBI), and UltraTech Cement were the Sensex gainers. About 1389 shares have advanced, 2044 shares declined, and 131 shares are unchanged. Sectorally, all except the Nifty PSB index ended in the red, led by the Nifty Financial Services index (down 2.5 percent) and the Nifty Private Bank index (down 2.3 percent), The Nifty PSB index, on the other hand, ended 1 percent higher. the MidCap and SmallCap indices on the BSE outperformed the headline indices and ended 1.3 percent and 0.8 percent