Given below are a legal principle and a factual situation. Apply the given legal principle to the factual situation and select the most appropriate answer to the question given below:
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 seeking an anticipatory bail.