Chandigarh, Nov 7 (IANS): A five-year-old boy born in Australia, who had gone missing last month, was Friday found dead in Punjab's Mohali town, police said.

The boy, Mehram, went missing Oct 28 from outside his mother's house in Mohali's Phase 9 area, 10 km from here. The boy was playing outside the house when he went missing.

Police said the body was found from a garbage dumping ground in Sector 69.

Angry relatives and residents of the area blocked a road in Mohali after news of the boy's body being found reached them.

Police had earlier booked four members of his paternal family, including his father, after the boy went missing. The case was registered following a complaint from the boy's mother, Harjinder Kaur.

Kaur told police she suspected her in-laws of Mehram's kidnapping. Kaur had a matrimonial dispute with her husband who lives in Sydney.

She claimed that just before her son was kidnapped, her husband had called her up from Australia and threatened to take the boy back.

Kaur got married to Varinder Pal Singh in 2007 and they went to live in Australia. She came back to India six months after the birth of their son in December 2008. She claimed that her estranged husband had sent her divorce papers.