Net profit for the same quarter last fiscal stood at Rs 1,900 crore.
Total income of the bank rose to Rs 12,531 crore, from Rs 10,929 crore in the year-ago period.
As on December 31 last year, Axis Bank's portfolio quality deteriorated, with gross non-performing assets (NPAs) rising to 1.68 per cent of gross advances as against 1.34 per cent in the same quarter of the previous fiscal.
Its net non-performing assets also jumped to 0.75 per cent, from the earlier 0.44 per cent.