The Navi Mumbai civic body on Friday demolished Bethel Gospel Pentecostal Church in Seawoods, which ran a children’s home, more than three months after its pastor was arrested for molesting girls sent there.

The women’s wing of the BJP, Mahila Morcha, had demanded the church’s demolition, after the matter came to light in August. The District Child Protection Office Thane along with an NGO had raided the church and rescued 45 minor children.