Facts are often manipulated and distorted by state powers to suppress incidents of sexual violence in narratives published, telecasted or posted on social media platforms. The constructed media narratives are mostly used to deflect accusations of guilt in hope to shirk off responsibilities that the state has as a neutral arbiter of justice but is at times unable to deliver the same owing to different kinds of pressures of dominant social groups. The notion of screen memory posited by Max Silverman is a critical concept to understand how the victims of violence are relegated to the periphery by the dominant socio-political-cultural groups. Through discourse and archival analysis, I attempt to draw a parallels analysis between the narratives of rape (of Kunan Poshpora which happened in 1991 and the Kathua gang rape case that happened in 2018) as covered by mainstream media and the individual testimonies of survivors. I attempt to study how screen memory is used by the media to not only deem these narratives as false but also delegitimise them. This paper highlights how the testimony of victims of rape and their families finds no mention in the news reports published in lieu of reporting an unbiased and factual cases. The survivors and victims are erased and are further marginalised. This paper illustrates how personal documentation shatters the illusion of screen memory as posited by the mainstream media.