As it would be unlikely to be due to a cut nerve with the neutering op, it is most likely pressure damage on the nerve.
Similar to when you fall asleep heavily on your arm and it is numb when you wake up, this is a similar situation only the nerve has been damaged and takes longer to heal. Nerve damage can take up to 6 months or even longer depending on the degree of injury.
When any animal is operated on the potential for this sort of thing happening is always there as the animal is unconscious and cannot complain if the leg is yanked or the leg is lain upon awkwardly. Also cats can get themselves very stressed in vet cages and being handled by strangers so may have injured himself in the struggle.
I would get him x-rayed to make sure there is no tissue or bony damage and if not perhaps a neurology opinion.
I think a second opinion may be good, as the implication was that Bowzer was damaged at the vets and the first vet will not want to elucidate anything that will implicate them any further, but I do not think that a Bengal is sufficiently different in this case from any other cat in order for you to seek out a Bengal specific vet.
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