The present investigation is an attempt to study the behavior of the soil which has been reported to be polluted by the disposal of amino acid based effluent on land. Studies have also been carried out on artificially polluted soil collected from the site of a multistoried building where deep foundation was carried out. The geotechnical properties of the above soil samples were determined (i.e. index properties and shear strength parameters), in the laboratory based on standard testing procedures. Laboratory tests were conducted on the above soil samples for determining the index and strength properties. From the results, it was observed that the effluent has no significant effect on the index properties of the soil collected at the discharge point (S₀) whereas, the index properties of the soil collected from the deep foundation site at a depth of about 13 m (S₀¹) are found to be slightly affected by the pollutant, which may attributed due to the presence of substantial quantities of fines and a higher quantity of clay in the above soil sample. However, soil S₀¹ shows a higher sensitivity to the U.C.C. value than S₀.