Muzamil won the Ramnath Goenka Award in 2009 April for his investigative articles on the Sex Scandal in the valley, which exposed high profile nexus between politicians, bureaucrats and flesh traders. Following the investigative articles in the Indian Expres, people were out on the streets and there was mass agitation.He received a Sanskriti Award for excellence in Indian journalism and literature, as well as a Kurt Schork Award for International Journalism from Columbia University. 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