The Indian equity benchmarks resumed decline after a day's pause in the previous sesion dragged by losses in index heavyweights like Bajaj Finance, ICICI Bank, Infosys, Bajaj Finserv, State Bank of India and Larsen & Toubro. The Sensex fell as much as 773 points and Nifty 50 index briefly fell below its important psychological level of 17,000 at the day's lowest level. amid weak global cues.