Muzamil Jaleel is the deputy editor at the Indian Express based in New Delhi.
Muzamil won the Ramnath Goenka Award in 2009 April for his investigative articles on the sex scandal in the valley, which exposed a high-profile nexus between politicians, bureaucrats and flesh traders.
Muzamil has won Ramnath Goenka Award (RNG) for Excellence in Journalism four times.
He won his first RNG for 2007 (the award was given in 2009) for his Kashmir reportage,[3] for year 2009 for his coverage of the last days of the Lankan government's war against the LTTE (on the spot category),[4] in 2012 (Reporting on Politics and Government category) for detailing the innocuousness that became incriminating in SIMI arrests.
[7] In 2002, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) reported that Jaleel had been assaulted by the Indian police in the Kashmir Valley, while on his way home from work.