Maruti shares fall more than 1%
Shares in Maruti Suzuki, India's top carmaker, fell more than 1 percent early on Wednesday, a day after the company said it was recalling 100,000 of its A-Star hatchbacks sold overseas and in India.
Maruti, in which Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp has 54.2 percent stake, said on Tuesday that a faulty gasket leading to a potential fuel leakage problem had been identified and the company had fixed about half of the cars.
At 9:01 a.m. (0331 GMT), its shares were down 0.8 percent at 1,326.10 rupees.
The stock has fallen 14.3 percent this year, lagging the main index which has lost 6.7 percent.
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