In the fourth phase, voters can choose someone who is charged with either murder or attempt to murder, rape, kidnapping, robbery, dacoity, communal disharmony, forgery, criminal intimidation and more.
There is no dearth of candidates facing such charges in the 55 constituencies that vote in the fourth phase.
According to records, of the 776 candidates in the fray across the poll-bound districts - East Champaran, West Champaran, Sheohar, Sitamarhi, Muzaffarpur, Siwan, Gopalganj - 253 have criminal cases pending against them.
Data analysed by the Association for Democratic Reforms and Election Watch listed 201 candidates accused of heinous crimes.
Topping the charts is Amit Kumar, an Independent candidate from Sursand segment in Sitamarhi constituency, who faces four murder cases. Birendra Prasad Gupta, the CPI-ML (Liberation) candidate from Sikta constituency in West Champaran, facing three murder cases, trails him.
RJD candidate Om Prakash Chaudhary from Sugauli (East Champaran) and Gorakh Yadav, Independent from Baikunthpur in Gopalganj face two murder cases each.
Among those in the fray in this phase are Anirudh Prasad, alias Sadhu Yadav, the elder brother-in-law of RJD chief Lalu Prasad.
The former MP, who ran a parallel regime during the 15-year-long Lalu-Rabri regime, is contesting on a Garib Janata Dal (Secular) ticket from the Barauli constituency in Gopalganj district and faces several charges, including one pertaining to assaulting an IAS officer.
Sadhu went to Lok Sabha on an RJD ticket from Gopalganj but later quit the party after a dispute with Lalu in 2009 on being denied a party ticket.
He joined the Congress to contest the general election but was expelled from the Congress after he lavishly praised Narendra Modi before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and floated Garib Janata Dal earlier this year.
Sonu Kumar, an Independent candidate from Narkatia constituency in East Champaran, faces many cases, including those related to extortion, attempt to murder, rioting, assault and atrocities on Dalits.
Rajiv Kumar, the Bihar convener of Election Watch, said: "The candidates involved in crimes is a malaise spread deep and wide with major political parties giving tickets to those with money and muscle power to win the elections."
Fifteen of 25 candidates given tickets by chief minister Nitish Kumar's JDU, 17 of the RJD's 26 candidates and two of Congress's eight candidates face criminal cases. These three parties are part of the Grand Alliance pitted against the NDA.
In the NDA, 28 of 42 of the BJP are tainted, while three out of five belong to LJP and three of four candidates of Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) face criminal charges.
The Association for Democratic Reforms and Election Watch have flagged down 48 of the 55 Assembly seats as "red alert constituencies" as they have three or more candidates involved in criminal cases.
Also, 220 candidates have assets running into crores. Their combined wealth has pushed up the average worth of assets of all 776 candidates to Rs 1.24 crore.
Among the political parties, the JDU tops again in this phase with 76 per cent of its candidates owning assets worth crores. It's followed by the Congress with 75 per cent of its contestants being crorepatis and the BJP with 67 per cent.
