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Thank you very much to each one of you.
I was wrong by saying "The judgment did not say anything" the correct phrase should be: The judgment did not say anything on spending my money and the judgment ordered me to pay some specific amount (I am not disclosing the amount here) to the plaintiff/creditor.
Also let me correct my following earlier sentences: "I wish to know what if a person hides the currency and claims that he/she spent it on consumables? What legal tools the creditor has to face this?" The corrected sentences are: If I hide the cash under carpet and, during the judgment debtor exam or other proceeding, I say under oath that I have no cash with me and that I spent it on consumable items (and say that I have no receipts and no record on how I spent it) then whether the court or creditor can come to my home to search if I hide the money? How they prove (if at all they want to prove) that I lied? Kindly note that I have no intentions of doing this but want to educate myself.
You cannot prove that they lied, and the courts are not going to let you search the defendant's house. I don't think that a court can even make that kind of order. It might be possible in some areas for a sheriff to do a simple search of a defendant's home for significant assets, but not the creditor themselves.