PANJIM: United Breweries and United Spirits – flagship companies of liquor baron Vijay Mallya, are under the scanner with the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) issuing show cause notices to them for allegedly discharging effluent into the Curti Ponda nullah.

The board also found that samples from the from the effluent and sewage treatment plants are not “meeting prescribed limits,” Minister for Environment and Forests Alina Saldanha told the legislative assembly on Wednesday.