Consolidated net profit fell 7.3% to 61.06 billion rupees ($735.55 million) in the seasonally weak third quarter from a year earlier.

Analysts, on average, expected a profit of 61.67 billion rupees, as per LSEG data.

($1 = 83.0130 Indian rupees)

(Reporting by Haripriya Suresh; Editing by Eileen Soreng)