 Six years after the commission was formed, Giani accepted the responsibility of serving as the Commission's Counsel.He joined the Commission in 1998, after the previous Counsel had resigned.Giani worked on the final report which was handed over to the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P. Chidambaram by Justice Liberhan and Giani a further 11 years later, on 30 June 2009.