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Cancell the agreement and ask for refund of money, if  the landlord didn't your frnd can file suit for recovery of money.  As per state court fee act y;ou wil hae to pay the Court fee on it.

You have mentioned only some terms of the agreement. Normally the agreement will contain many other details such as the date from which rent will start and the date before which the landlord should complete the building including various permissions.

Since the builder has failed to hand over the premises to you, you can cancel the agreement and ask for refund. If he does not give the refund then you can get the money legally by following the process of law.

Please note that the lease agreement should be registered. If yoru friend has not got a registered document, then also he can get a refund. However, it is compulsory to register the lease agreements and only registered documents are considered evidence in a Court of law.

In the absence of a registered document you may not be able to prove that you had agreed for a lease on the terms mentioned therein but you can always ask for a refuind of the money given by you as per the process of law. File  a suit.

S Jadhav