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The paper is concerned with the product connection of a Riemannian foliation in the cases where the leaves are the integral curves of the Reeb vector field \(\xi\) of a contact structure or are the integral submanifolds of the 3-dimensional subbundle of a hypercontact structure. A triple of contact forms \((\omega_1,\omega_2,\omega_3)\) is called a hypercontact structure if there exist a Riemannian metric \(g\) and a compatible almost contact 3-structure \((\phi_i,\xi_i,\eta_i)_{i=1,2,3}\) such that \(g(\phi_iX,Y)=d\omega_i(X,Y)\). In the contact case with contact form \(\omega\) let \(\mathcal D\) denote the kernel of \(\omega\). Then the product connection has torsion which satisfies \(\text{ Tor}(X,Y)=d\omega(X,Y)\xi\) for \(X,Y\in\Gamma({\mathcal D})\). Also \(\tau(X)=\text{ Tor}(\xi,X)\), \(X\in\Gamma({\mathcal D})\) is called the sub-torsion of the product connection. In the hypercontact case with contact forms \((\omega_1,\omega_2,\omega_3)\), let \({\mathcal D}=\cap_{i=1}^3\ker\omega_i\). The product connection has torsion satisfying \(\text{ Tor}(X,Y)=\sum d\omega_i(X,Y)\xi_i\) for \(X,Y\in\Gamma({\mathcal D})\) and there are three sub-torsions, \(\tau_i:\Gamma({\mathcal D})\longrightarrow\Gamma({\mathcal D})\) given by \(\tau_i(X)=\text{ Tor}(\xi_i,X)\). While the paper considers both cases, the main results are in the hypercontact case. Here under some natural assumptions, the authors show that if the \(\tau_i\) are skew-symmetric, the foliation is bundle-like. Further if the corresponding almost complex structures (\(\phi_i{\mathcal D}\)) on \(\mathcal D\) are integrable (i.e. the restriction of the Nijenhuis tensor of \(\phi_i{\mathcal D}\) to \(\mathcal D\) vanishes), the space of leaves admits a hyper-kähler structure.