NEW DELHI: The domestic equity benchmark BSE Sensex was trading 170.29 points up at 36,340.70 on Friday on account of buying in frontline bluechip counters.Shares of Garv Industries (down 11.76 per cent), King Infra Ventures (down 11.27 per cent), Sadhna Broadcast (down 10.04 per cent), JLA Infraville (down 10 per cent), Duncan Engineering (down 9.84 per cent), Swastika Investmart (down 9.81 per cent), National Plastic (down 8.89 per cent), Hotel Leela (down 7.80 per cent), Vardhman Polytex (down 6.86 per cent) and Manaksia Coated Metals (down 6.84 per cent) were among the worst performers.Parsvnath Developers (down 5.97 per cent), OIL India (down 5.84 per cent),Kwality (down 4.95 per cent) too declined around 5 per cent at around the same time.
In the Nifty pack, 31 stocks were trading in the green, while 19 stocks were in the red.
The Nifty index was trading 41.85 points up at 10,900.55.