bareilly a ceiling fan installed at a court at the bareilly collectorate in 1938 during the british period and weighing 27 kg fell on two government employees on friday afternoon injuring them the incident happened in the court of the additional district magistrate finance manoj kumar the adm who was not present at the time later ordered staff to check all the fans of the collectorate to see if any other such ancient fans were still around and if they were safe to work under around 1 pm over a dozen people including those of the adm f office were busy at work when the ceiling fan hanging over a part of the court fell down while spinning injuring a court employee named totaram who goes by one name and op mishra from the regional transport office rto who had come to court for official work ldquoboth injured persons were rushed to the hospital in my car after the incident as there was no case being heard in court today i was having a meeting with my staff on flood management at my office when the fan fell the weird noise which came from the court room adjacent to my office left us stunned we rushed to the spot after hearing screams both injured persons were bleeding while the fan was lying on the centre tablerdquo adm kumar said there are three ceiling fans all from the same era installed at the adm court ldquoafter the incident i instructed my staff to check all such old fans installed in every room at the collectorate and see if we can safely work under themrdquo kumar added naib najir of the collectorate devendra singh told toi ldquothe building was constructed in 1868 by the british government after electric supply came to bareilly the fans were installed here in 1938 in the collectorate we have three dozen fans which were installed back then all of them are in good working conditionrdquo a collectorate official on condition of anonymity that till the 1990s every year before summer arrived all the fans were examined and cleaned but now nobody bothered to check them ldquothese fans have antique value and require maintenance at regular intervals all of them are still in good condition it is the responsibility of the najirrsquos office to take care of all such items but sadly nobody caresrdquo he added