His prayer to God is like a lawyer’s defence of a bad case. Does he argue his case well? What are the points he makes?

Yes, he argued his case very well. Some of the points are as follows:

1. He had memorised the last ten surats of Quran and the entire ayat-ul-kursi so he was very religious minded.
2. He confessed by admitting his mistake of eating jalebis. He did not eat alone rather distributed to a whole lot of children.
3. He was totally unaware of the fact that the scholarship money would be handed over the next month otherwise he would never had finished the money on eating jalebis.