Reliance Industries Limited (NSEI:RELIANCE), along with a partner, are among those bidding to take over bankrupt Indian textile firm Sintex Industries Limited (BSE:502742), according to a stock-exchange filing, as the billionaire attempts to diversify from an oil empire and into telecommunications, green energy and fashion. Reliance is partnering with Assets Care & Reconstruction Enterprise Ltd. to bid for the company under a court-appointed bankruptcy resolution process, Sintex said in a filing on December 12, 2021. Other bidders are Easygo Textiles Private Limited, GHCL Limited (NSEI:GHCL), and Himatsingka Ventures Pvt., which is working with Shrikant Himatsingka and Dinesh Kumar Himatsingka.

The move by Ambani, whose companies this year purchased intellectual property rights to use the iconic Lee Cooper brand in India and stakes in high-end fashion brands run by stylists to some of Bollywood's biggest stars, is only the second time Reliance has shown interest in an insolvent company.