MUMBAI (Reuters) - State Bank of India (SBI), India's largest lender, added 81.61 billion rupees worth of bad loans during the three months to end-December 2011, chairman Pratip Chaudhuri said on Monday.
SBI beat market expectations with a 15 percent rise in fiscal third-quarter net profit earlier on Monday as interest income rose.
(Reporting by Swati Pandey; Editing by Subhadip Sircar)