Mumbai, July 29 - A day after accusing the oil ministry of adopting a partisan stand in the Reliance gas dispute, Anil Ambani Wednesday said his company had served a notice to the parties and will move court for an early resolution of the matter.

Speaking to reporters over a conference call here, Anil Ambani said his group's Reliance Natural Resources Ltd had served the notice on both the petroleum ministry and Reliance Industries for an early settlement of the dispute.

'The honourable Supreme Court will be requested to take up the matter for final hearing on Sep 1,' Ambani said, adding a petition on these lines will be moved in the apex court Thursday and hoped the government will back this initiative.

'Reliance Natural Resources hopes that they (the oil ministry) will also agree to our request for final hearing of the matter and will not be misled, misguided by Reliance Industries,' he said.

'Of course, I will be personally happy to be proven wrong if Reliance Industries (led by his elder brother Mukesh Ambani) also agrees to our request tomorrow if they genuinely want the matter to be resolved expeditiously.'

Last month, the Bombay High Court had asked Reliance Industries to supply 28 million units of gas from Krishna-Godavari basin to Reliance Natural Resources for 17 years at $2.34 per unit, after assigning 12 million units to the state-run power utility NTPC.