Given below are Legal Principles followed by a Factual Situation. Apply the principles followed by a factual Situation. Apply the principle to it and select the most appropriate answer for question among the four choices given.
PRINCIPLE: Anticipatory bail could be granted to any person who apprehends arrest for a non-bailable offence.
FACTS: Z publishes a defamatory statement against a state minister in a local daily. Police registers a case of defamation, a bailable offence against Z. He files an application in Supreme Court asking for anticipatory bail.