Shares of India's Tech Mahindra fell as much as 6.2% on Thursday after the company's third-quarter profit missed estimates.

The country's fifth-largest IT services company on Wednesday said profit slumped 60.6% from the previous year to 5.10 billion rupees ($61.4 million) for the three months ended Dec. 31, missing analysts' estimate of 6.17 billion rupees, according to LSEG data. ($1 = 83.1200 Indian rupees) (Reporting by Ashish Chandra in Bengaluru; Editing by Dhanya Ann Thoppil)