BENGALURU, Jan 16 Reuters Indian shares fell on Tuesday, dragged by a pullback in highweightage IT stocks after a recent rally, while investors awaited the results of top private lender HDFC Bank.

The bluechip NSE Nifty 50 shed 0.29 to 22,032.30 points, while the SP BSE Sensex lost 0.27 to 73,128.77.

Both the benchmarks rose about 0.1 each to fresh record highs for the third session in a row, before reversing gains.

IT stocks shed 1.28, after jumping 7.1 in the last two sessions on the back of betterthanexpected results from the top four software companies.

HCLTech, Wipro and Infosys were among the top five Nifty 50 losers, dropping between 1.2 and 2.5.

Markets will be guided predominantly by earnings over the next few sessions as several key constituents are scheduled to report their results, said Gaurav Dua, senior vice president and head of capital market strategy at Sharekhan.

Eight Nifty 50 companies, with a combined weightage of more than 30, are due to report their quarterly earnings this week.

Financials were muted, ahead of results from the highestweighted Nifty 50 stock HDFC Bank  due after closing bell. Eight of the 13 major sectors logged losses.

Among individual stocks, National Aluminium Company and Hindustan Copper climbed 2.66 and 3.89, respectively, after a stateowned joint venture KABIL signed an agreement with Argentina39;s CAMYEN SE for lithium exploration and mining.

The two were among the top gainers in metals, which rose about 1….