BHPC, together with some health practitioners are facing a P9, 300, 000 lawsuit by Bhagat for discrediting his credentials as a cardiologist alleging that he is only a general physician. Bhagat has maintained that he is a specialist physician whose area of speciality is cardiology. BHPC suggests that Bhagat may be using the identity of one Dr Kaushik Kumar B Bhagat who was registered as a specialist physician in 1996. An affidavit filed by the council, along with its 13 members, states that "the person registered as a Specialist Physician in 1996 was one Kaushik - Kumar B Bhagat". They further claim that those particulars were altered in 2006 from the names of Kaushik-Kumar B. Bhagat to that of Dr Kiran Bhagat.
The council states that Dr Kiran Bhagat "has therefore never been lawfully registered" with the council in accordance with the provisions of the Botswana Health Professions Act and that their Director was in error in so far as Bhagat had not complied with the provisions of section 9 (4) of the Act and that, therefore, the permission was contrary to the provisions of the Act.
